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2007
ACM
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On the submodularity of influence in social networks
We prove and extend a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (KKT) on the spread of influence in social networks. A social network can be represented by a directed graph where...
Elchanan Mossel, Sébastien Roch
WEBNET
1997
13 years 10 months ago
Telemedicine: An Inquiry in the Economic and Social Dynamics of Communications Technologies in the Medical Field
The health care industry in the United States has been experiencing substantial and ever increasing cost pressures. At the same time, many forces are revolutionizing the way healt...
Francis Pereira, Elizabeth Fife, Antonio A. Schuh
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
ESCAPES: evacuation simulation with children, authorities, parents, emotions, and social comparison
In creating an evacuation simulation for training and planning, realistic agents that reproduce known phenomenon are required. Evacuation simulation in the airport domain requires...
Jason Tsai, Natalie Fridman, Emma Bowring, Matthew...
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Normative Agent Reasoning in Dynamic Societies
Several innovative software applications such as those required by ambient intelligence, the semantic grid, e-commerce and e-marketing, can be viewed as open societies of heteroge...
Fabiola López y López, Michael Luck,...
IESA
2007
13 years 10 months ago
The Interoperability of Information and its Representation in New Media: A Case Study of a Global Content Provider
This paper focuses on the construct of interoperability of web-based information applications, commonly known as ‘mashups’, reporting a case study of a global content provider...
J. Mariategui, J. Kallinikos