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ICIP
2001
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Curves vs skeletons in object recognition
The type of representation used in describing shape can have a significant impact on the effectiveness of a recognition strategy. Shape has been represented by its bounding curve ...
Thomas B. Sebastian, Benjamin B. Kimia
STOC
2007
ACM
169views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Proportional response dynamics leads to market equilibrium
One of the main reasons of the recent success of peer to peer (P2P) file sharing systems such as BitTorrent is its built-in tit-for-tat mechanism. In this paper, we model the band...
Fang Wu, Li Zhang
AAAI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Using Anticipation to Create Believable Behaviour
Although anticipation is an important part of creating believable behaviour, it has had but a secondary role in the field of life-like characters. In this paper, we show how a sim...
Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva
WPES
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A privacy-preserving interdomain audit framework
Recent trends in Internet computing have led to the popularization of many forms of virtual organizations. Examples include supply chain management, grid computing, and collaborat...
Adam J. Lee, Parisa Tabriz, Nikita Borisov
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
118views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling volatility in prediction markets
There is significant experimental evidence that prediction markets are efficient mechanisms for aggregating information and are more accurate in forecasting events than tradition...
Nikolay Archak, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis