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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Real ethics in a virtual world
This paper investigates the ethics of the appearance and behavior of avatars in massively multi-user online communities, in particular, avatars created for virtual business intera...
Victoria McArthur
WS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Metcalfe's law, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web
: The power of the Web is enhanced through the network effect produced as resources link to each other with the value determined by Metcalfe's law. In Web 2.0 applications, mu...
James A. Hendler, Jennifer Golbeck
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Efficient concept clustering for ontology learning using an event life cycle on the web
Ontology learning integrates many complementary techniques, including machine learning, natural language processing, and data mining. Specifically, clustering techniques facilitat...
Sangsoo Sung, Seokkyung Chung, Dennis McLeod
ALIFE
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Basic Autonomy as a Fundamental Step in the Synthesis of Life
In the search for the primary roots of autonomy (a pivotal concept in Varela's comprehensive understanding of living beings), the theory of autopoiesis provided an explicit cr...
Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Alvaro Moreno
MM
2006
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Scaling laws and tradeoffs in peer-to-peer live multimedia streaming
It is well-known that live multimedia streaming applications operate more efficiently when organized in peer-to-peer (P2P) topologies, since peer upload capacities are utilized t...
Tara Small, Ben Liang, Baochun Li