The paper deals with the development of the informational since the IFIP '71 Congress in Ljubljana when the new consciousness evolved to the necessity of nowadays information...
We formulate and study a decentralized multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem. There are distributed players competing for independent arms. Each arm, when played, offers i.i.d. reward a...
Recent technologies supporting continuous connectivity enable sustained awareness within social networks, which eventually boosts interaction and therefore the need of individuals...
Bucket testing, also known as A/B testing, is a practice that is widely used by on-line sites with large audiences: in a simple version of the methodology, one evaluates a new fea...
As computers are increasingly used to mediate social interaction, tools are needed not only to support direct communication, but also to create a richer social environment for the...