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ICIW
2009
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Using Propagation of Distrust to Find Untrustworthy Web Neighborhoods
Web spamming, the practice of introducing artificial text and links into web pages to affect the results of searches, has been recognized as a major problem for search engines. Bu...
Panagiotis Takis Metaxas
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 10 months ago
A model of norm emergence and innovation in language change
We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of...
Samarth Swarup, Andrea Apolloni, Zsuzsanna Fagyal
CEC
2011
IEEE
12 years 10 months ago
Modeling HIV spread through sexual contact using a cellular automaton
Abstract—Having a risky sexual behavior increases the likelihood of infection by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AI...
Azadeh Alimadad, Vahid Dabbaghian, Suraj K. Singhk...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Being a part of the crowd: towards validating VR crowds using presence
Crowd simulation models are currently lacking a commonly accepted validation method. In this paper, we propose level of presence achieved by a human in a virtual environment (VE) ...
Nuria Pelechano, Catherine Stocker, Jan M. Allbeck...
ICDM
2010
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
ValuePick: Towards a Value-Oriented Dual-Goal Recommender System
Given a user in a social network, which new friends should we recommend, the dual goal being to achieve user satisfaction and good network connectivity? Similarly, which new produc...
Leman Akoglu, Christos Faloutsos