In this paper, we explore the concept of dual–purpose speech: speech that is socially appropriate in the context of a human– to–human conversation which also provides meanin...
Kent Lyons, Christopher Skeels, Thad Starner, Corn...
This paper describes simulations designed to test the relative efficiency of two different sequential auction mechanisms for allocating compute resources between users in a shared...
In the form of topic discussions, users interact with each other to share knowledge and exchange information in online forums. Modeling the evolution of topic discussion reveals h...
Hao Wu, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen, Can Wang, Guang Qiu,...
With the increased use of the web has come a corresponding increase in information overload that users face when trying to locate specific webpages, especially as a majority of vi...
This paper reports on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a market-based recommender system that suggests relevant documents to users. The key feature of the system is t...