We examine designs for crowdsourcing contests, where participants compete for rewards given to superior solutions of a task. We theoretically analyze tradeoffs between the expecta...
Xi Alice Gao, Yoram Bachrach, Peter Key, Thore Gra...
We consider the weight design problem for the consensus algorithm under a finite time horizon. We assume that the underlying network is random where the links fail at each iterat...
This paper, the first in a series of four, presents the conceptual design of a subsystem with integrative function based on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), named Geographic...
Fernando Maciel Lima e Sousa, Valdevino Siqueira C...
Robust, global, address geocoding is challenging because there is no single address format that applies to all geographies, and in any case, users may not restrict themselves to w...
Vibhuti S. Sengar, Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Samar...
Traditional regression analysis derives global relationships between variables and neglects spatial variations in variables. Hence they lack the ability to systematically discover...