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WISE
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Start Trusting Strangers? Bootstrapping and Prediction of Trust
Web-based environments typically span interactions between humans and software services. The management and automatic calculation of trust are among the key challenges of the futur...
Florian Skopik, Daniel Schall, Schahram Dustdar
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Empirical comparison of algorithms for network community detection
Detecting clusters or communities in large real-world graphs such as large social or information networks is a problem of considerable interest. In practice, one typically chooses...
Jure Leskovec, Kevin J. Lang, Michael W. Mahoney
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Money, glory and cheap talk: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Nikolay Archak
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Perceptions and practices of usability in the free/open source software (FoSS) community
CT This paper presents results from a study examining perceptions and practices of usability in the free/open source software (FOSS) community. 27 individuals associated with 11 di...
Michael Terry, Matthew Kay, Ben Lafreniere
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Operational semantics of goal models in adaptive agents
Several agent-oriented software engineering methodologies address the emerging challenges posed by the increasing need of adaptive software. A common denominator of such methodolo...
Mirko Morandini, Loris Penserini, Anna Perini