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ISR
2006
15 years 6 months ago
How Often Should Reputation Mechanisms Update a Trader's Reputation Profile?
Reputation mechanisms have become an important component of electronic markets, helping to build trust and elicit cooperation among loosely connected and geographically dispersed ...
Chrysanthos Dellarocas
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Towards a unified formal model for supporting mechanisms of dynamic component update
The continuous requirements of evolving a delivered software system and the rising cost of shutting down a running software system are forcing researchers and practitioners to fin...
Junrong Shen, Xi Sun, Gang Huang, Wenpin Jiao, Yan...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Crowdsourcing user studies with Mechanical Turk
User studies are important for many aspects of the design process and involve techniques ranging from informal surveys to rigorous laboratory studies. However, the costs involved ...
Aniket Kittur, Ed H. Chi, Bongwon Suh
PODS
2010
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Universally optimal privacy mechanisms for minimax agents
A scheme that publishes aggregate information about sensitive data must resolve the trade-off between utility to information consumers and privacy of the database participants. D...
Mangesh Gupte, Mukund Sundararajan
HIPC
2009
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Impact of early abort mechanisms on lock-based software transactional memory
Software transactional memory (STM) is an emerging concurrency control mechanism for shared memory accesses. Early abort is one of the important techniques to improve the executio...
Zhengyu He, Bo Hong