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MUM
2009
ACM
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Context-aware messaging: how personal, spatial and temporal constraints affect text-based communication
There are academic and commercial drivers for contextawareness to play a prominent role in the future of mobile services. Implementing a complete model of context remains an unsol...
Simon Jones, Eamonn O'Neill
AMMA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Manipulating Scrip Systems: Sybils and Collusion
Abstract. Game-theoretic analyses of distributed and peer-to-peer systems typically use the Nash equilibrium solution concept, but this explicitly excludes the possibility of strat...
Ian A. Kash, Eric J. Friedman, Joseph Y. Halpern
ESA
2009
Springer
149views Algorithms» more  ESA 2009»
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Sparse Cut Projections in Graph Streams
Finding sparse cuts is an important tool for analyzing large graphs that arise in practice, such as the web graph, online social communities, and VLSI circuits. When dealing with s...
Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Rina Panigra...
ICMI
2009
Springer
94views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2009»
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Modeling culturally authentic style shifting with virtual peers
: We report on a new kind of culturally-authentic embodied conversational agent more in line with the ways that culture and ethnicity function in the real world. On the basis of th...
Justine Cassell, Kathleen Geraghty, Berto Gonzalez...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Predicting user interests from contextual information
Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...
Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Liwei Chen