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SBP
2015
Springer
8 years 7 months ago
Ride Sharing: A Network Perspective
Ride sharing’s potential to improve traffic congestion as well as assist in reducing CO2 emission and fuel consumption was recently demonstrated by works such as [1]. Furthermore...
Erez Shmueli, Itzik Mazeh, Laura Radaelli, Alex Pe...
SBP
2015
Springer
8 years 7 months ago
Early Prediction of Movie Success - What, Who, and When
Leveraging historical data from the movie industry, this study built a predictive model for movie success, deviating from past studies by predicting profit (as opposed to revenue) ...
Michael T. Lash, Sunyang Fu, Shiyao Wang, Kang Zha...
SBP
2015
Springer
8 years 7 months ago
Styles in the Fashion Social Network: An Analysis on Lookbook.nu
As birds of a feather flock together, so do people with similar interests and preferences befriend with each other. Numerous Social Network Analysis (SNA) researchers have investi...
Yusan Lin, Heng Xu, Yilu Zhou, Wang-Chien Lee
SBP
2015
Springer
8 years 7 months ago
An Analysis of MOOC Discussion Forum Interactions from the Most Active Users
Abstract. Many massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer mainly videobased lectures, which limits the opportunity for interactions and communications among students and instructors...
Jian-Syuan Wong, Bart Pursel, Anna Divinsky, Berna...
SBP
2015
Springer
8 years 7 months ago
Analyzing Second Screen Based Social Soundtrack of TV Viewers from Diverse Cultural Settings
The presence of social networks and computing device in form of secondary screens used in conjunction with television plays a significant role in the shift from traditional televis...
Partha Mukherjee, Bernard J. Jansen
SBP
2015
Springer
8 years 7 months ago
Modeling Group Dynamics for Personalized Group-Event Recommendation
Event-Based Social Networks (EBSNs) such as Meetup, Plancast, etc., have become popular platforms for users to plan and organize social events with friends and acquaintances. These...
Sanjay Purushotham, C.-C. Jay Kuo
SBP
2015
Springer
8 years 7 months ago
Error-Correction and Aggregation in Crowd-Sourcing of Geopolitical Incident Information
A discriminative model is presented for crowd-sourcing the annotation of news stories to produce a structured dataset about incidents involving militarized disputes between nation-...
Alexander G. Ororbia II, Yang Xu, Vito D'Orazio, D...
SAC
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
de Finetti Priors using Markov chain Monte Carlo computations
Recent advances in Monte Carlo methods allow us to revisit work by de Finetti who suggested the use of approximate exchangeability in the analyses of contingency tables. This paper...
Sergio Bacallado, Persi Diaconis, Susan Holmes
SAC
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Cuts in Bayesian graphical models
Abstract The cut function defined by the OpenBUGS software is described as a “valve” that prevents feedback in Bayesian graphical models. It is shown that the MCMC algorithm a...
Martyn Plummer