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ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
A model of norm emergence and innovation in language change
We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of...
Samarth Swarup, Andrea Apolloni, Zsuzsanna Fagyal
MSS
2008
IEEE
58views Hardware» more  MSS 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Licensing of a quality-improving innovation
This paper considers the licensing of a quality-improving innovation. We analyze a duopoly model with heterogeneous firms and consumers. Firms compete in prices and face logit dem...
Giorgos Stamatopoulos, Yair Tauman
KDD
2007
ACM
139views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Looking for Great Ideas: Analyzing the Innovation Jam
We discuss the Innovation Jam that IBM carried out in 2006, with the objective of identifying innovative and promising "Big Ideas" through a moderated on-line discussion...
Wojciech Gryc, Mary E. Helander, Richard D. Lawren...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Acquiring a professional "second life": problems and prospects for the use of virtual worlds in business
The current surge of interest in virtual worlds suggests they are poised to make an evolutionary leap to the workplace, as instant messaging did a decade ago. In recent work we ha...
Jason B. Ellis, Katherine Bessière, Wendy A...
ECAL
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Artificial Life Meets Anthropology: A Case of Aggression in Primitive Societies
One of the greatest challenges in the modern biological and social sciences has been to understand the evolution of altruistic and cooperative behaviors. General outlines of the an...
Mikhail S. Burtsev