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ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Lifting the veil: the expression of values in online communities
Wikipedia’s stated mission is to provide a free encyclopedia that people all over the world can use and contribute to. However, while Wikipedia is successful at providing access...
Jonathan T. Morgan, Robert M. Mason, Karine Nahon
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Blogs: spinning a web of virality
The aim of this study is to understand the role of bloggers in driving viral information. More specifically, we develop a new methodology that creates a map of the „life cycle...
Karine Nahon, Jeff Hemsley, Shawn Walker, Muzammil...
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 6 months ago
eBirding: technology adoption and the transformation of leisure into science
The decreasing cost of technology and Internet access has resulted in increasingly large-scale scientific research projects that rely on technology-mediated public participation....
Andrea Wiggins
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Epistemic presumptions of authorship
The major concern of this paper is the cultural ramification of the bibliographic conception of “authorship.” Beginning with Foucault’s question “what is an author” and ...
Richard P. Smiraglia, Hur-Li Lee, Hope A. Olson
CORIA
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Knowledge Discovery in Satellite Image Databases
Knowledge discovery from satellite images in spatio-temporal context remains one of the major challenges in the remote sensing field. It is, always, difficult for a user to manuall...
Wadii Boulila, Imed Riadh Farah, Karim Saheb Ettab...
EJC
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Modular elimination in matroids and oriented matroids
Abstract. We introduce a new axiomatization of oriented matroids that requires the elimination property only among modular pairs of circuits. This new point of view leads also to a...
Emanuele Delucchi
EJC
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Bounds on generalized Frobenius numbers
Let N ≥ 2 and let 1 < a1 < · · · < aN be relatively prime integers. The Frobenius number of this N-tuple is defined to be the largest positive integer that has no re...
Lenny Fukshansky, Achill Schürmann
EJC
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Matching and edge-connectivity in regular graphs
Henning and Yeo proved a lower bound for the minimum size of a maximum matching in a connected k-regular graphs with n vertices; it is sharp infinitely often. In an earlier paper...
Suil O, Douglas B. West
EJC
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Enumeration of connected Catalan objects by type
Noncrossing set partitions, nonnesting set partitions, Dyck paths, and rooted plane trees are four classes of Catalan objects which carry a notion of type. There exists a product f...
Brendon Rhoades
EJC
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Distributive lattices, polyhedra, and generalized flows
A D-polyhedron is a polyhedron P such that if x, y are in P then so are their componentwise max and min. In other words, the point set of a D-polyhedron forms a distributive latti...
Stefan Felsner, Kolja B. Knauer