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CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Evaluation of methods for relative comparison of retrieval systems based on clickthroughs
The Cranfield evaluation method has some disadvantages, including its high cost in labor and inadequacy for evaluating interactive retrieval techniques. As a very promising alter...
Jing He, Chengxiang Zhai, Xiaoming Li
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Epidemic Self-synchronization in Complex Networks
In this article we evaluate an epidemic algorithm for the synchronization of coupled Kuramoto oscillators in complex Peer-to-Peer topologies. The algorithm requires a periodic coup...
Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Peter Stur...
COSIT
2009
Springer
146views GIS» more  COSIT 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Decentralized Time Geography for Ad-Hoc Collaborative Planning
For an autonomous physical agent, such as a moving robot or a person with their mobile device, performing a task in a spatio-temporal environment often requires interaction with ot...
Martin Raubal, Stephan Winter, Christopher Dorr
MDM
2009
Springer
126views Communications» more  MDM 2009»
16 years 29 days ago
Outlier Detection in Ad Hoc Networks Using Dempster-Shafer Theory
Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) are known to be vulnerable to a variety of attacks due to lack of central authority or fixed network infrastructure. Many security schemes have bee...
Wenjia Li, Anupam Joshi
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
16 years 29 days ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore