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SBP
2011
Springer
13 years 1 months ago
Consumer Search, Rationing Rules, and the Consequence for Competition
Abstract. Firms’ conjectures about demand are consequential in oligopoly games. Through agent-based modeling of consumers’ search for products, we can study the rationing of de...
Christopher S. Ruebeck
SBP
2011
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Promoting Coordination for Disaster Relief - From Crowdsourcing to Coordination
The efficiency at which governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are able to respond to a crisis and provide relief to victims has gained increased attention. This emp...
Huiji Gao, Xufei Wang, Geoffrey Barbier, Huan Liu
SBP
2011
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Ranking Information in Networks
Given a network, we are interested in ranking sets of nodes that score highest on user-specified criteria. For instance in graphs from bibliographic data (e.g. PubMed), we would l...
Tina Eliassi-Rad, Keith Henderson
SBP
2011
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Using Web-Based Knowledge Extraction Techniques to Support Cultural Modeling
The World Wide Web is a potentially valuable source of information about the cognitive characteristics of cultural groups. However, attempts to use the Web in the context of cultur...
Paul R. Smart, Winston R. Sieck, Nigel R. Shadbolt
SBP
2011
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Tracking Communities in Dynamic Social Networks
The study of communities in social networks has attracted considerable interest from many disciplines. Most studies have focused on static networks, and in doing so, have neglected...
Kevin S. Xu, Mark Kliger, Alfred O. Hero
SBP
2011
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Identifying Health-Related Topics on Twitter - An Exploration of Tobacco-Related Tweets as a Test Topic
Public health-related topics are difficult to identify in large conversational datasets like Twitter. This study examines how to model and discover public health topics and themes ...
Kyle W. Prier, Matthew S. Smith, Christophe G. Gir...
SBP
2011
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Temporal Visualization of Social Network Dynamics: Prototypes for Nation of Neighbors
Information visualization is a powerful tool for analyzing the dynamic nature of social communities. Using Nation of Neighbors community network as a testbed, we propose five prin...
Jae-wook Ahn, Meirav Taieb-Maimon, Awalin Sopan, C...
SBP
2011
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A Longitudinal View of the Relationship Between Social Marginalization and Obesity
We use 3 Waves of the Add Health data collected between 1994 and 2002 to conduct a longitudinal study of the relationship between social marginalization and the weight status of ad...
Andrea Apolloni, Achla Marathe, Zhengzheng Pan