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CASCON
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
First symposium on the Personal Web
The First Symposium on the Personal Web is colocated with CASCON 2010 and is sponsored by IBM CAS Research. This symposium includes key researchers and practitioners in a range of...
Mark H. Chignell, James R. Cordy, Joanna W. Ng, Ye...
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
A Truthful Randomized Mechanism for Combinatorial Public Projects via Convex Optimization
In Combinatorial Public Projects, there is a set of projects that may be undertaken, and a set of selfinterested players with a stake in the set of projects chosen. A public plann...
Shaddin Dughmi
TDSC
2011
13 years 3 months ago
An Obfuscation-Based Approach for Protecting Location Privacy
—The pervasive diffusion of mobile communication devices and the technical improvements of location techniques are fostering the development of new applications that use the phys...
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Marco Cremonini, Sabrina...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 11 days ago
Fit4life: the design of a persuasive technology promoting healthy behavior and ideal weight
This is a critical design paper offering a possible scenario of use intended to provoke reflection about values and politics of design in persuasive computing. We describe the des...
Stephen Purpura, Victoria Schwanda, Kaiton William...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 11 days ago
Human computation: a survey and taxonomy of a growing field
The rapid growth of human computation within research and industry has produced many novel ideas aimed at organizing web users to do great things. However, the growth is not adequ...
Alexander J. Quinn, Benjamin B. Bederson