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GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Using location based social networks for quality-aware participatory data transfer
The sensing systems that monitor physical environments rely on communication infrastructures (wired or wireless) to collect data from the sensors embedded in the environment. Howe...
Houtan Shirani-Mehr, Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Cyru...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Optimal marketing strategies over social networks
We discuss the use of social networks in implementing viral marketing strategies. While influence maximization has been studied in this context (see Chapter 24 of [10]), we study ...
Jason D. Hartline, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Mukund Sunda...
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mining newsgroups using networks arising from social behavior
Recent advances in information retrieval over hyperlinked corpora have convincinglydemonstratedthat links carry less noisy information than text. We investigate the feasibility of...
Rakesh Agrawal, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Ramakrishnan ...
MM
2006
ACM
151views Multimedia» more  MM 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Choreographic buttons: promoting social interaction through human movement and clear affordances
We used human movement as the basis for designing a collaborative aesthetic design environment. Our intention was to promote social interaction and creative expression. We employe...
Andrew Webb, Andruid Kerne, Eunyee Koh, Pranesh Jo...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 16 days ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier