We analyze the structure and evolution of discussion cascades in four popular websites: Slashdot, Barrapunto, Meneame and Wikipedia. Despite the big heterogeneities between these ...
We study mechanisms that can be modelled as coalitional games with transferable utilities, and apply ideas from mechanism design and game theory to problems arising in a network d...
Abstract. We are developing a decentralized approach to trust based on referral systems, where agents adaptively give referrals to one another to find other trustworthy agents. In...
—Sensory inputs such as visual images or audio spectrograms can act as symbols in a new cognitive model. The stability of direct image association operators allows the discrete b...
Road networks, roads, and junctions are examples of natural language terms whose semantics can be described by affordances of their physical referents. In order to define affordanc...