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WSDM
2010
ACM
261views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Similarity Metrics for Event Identification in Social Media
Social media sites (e.g., Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook) are a popular distribution outlet for users looking to share their experiences and interests on the Web. These sites host ...
Hila Becker, Mor Naaman, Luis Gravano
CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Auditory priming for upcoming events
Psychologically preparing for upcoming events can be a difficult task, particularly when switching social contexts, e.g., from office work to a family event. To help with such tra...
Timothy Sohn, Leila Takayama, Dean Eckles, Rafael ...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Voyagers and voyeurs: supporting asynchronous collaborative information visualization
This paper describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces....
Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wa...
CDC
2008
IEEE
141views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed welfare games with applications to sensor coverage
We consider a variation of the resource allocation problem. In the traditional problem, there is a global planner who would like to assign a set of players to a set of resources s...
Jason R. Marden, Adam Wierman
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Bayesian ignorance
We quantify the effect of Bayesian ignorance by comparing the social cost obtained in a Bayesian game by agents with local views to the expected social cost of agents having glob...
Noga Alon, Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman, Moshe Tenne...