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ACMDIS
2006
ACM
16 years 23 days ago
An empirical framework for designing social products
Designers generally agree that understanding the context of use is important in designing products. However, technologically advanced products such as personal robots engender com...
Bilge Mutlu
SIGECOM
2006
ACM
125views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
16 years 22 days ago
Minimum payments that reward honest reputation feedback
Online reputation mechanisms need honest feedback to function effectively. Self interested agents report the truth only when explicit rewards offset the cost of reporting and th...
Radu Jurca, Boi Faltings
SAC
2005
ACM
16 years 10 days ago
Formal modeling and quantitative analysis of KLAIM-based mobile systems
KLAIM is an experimental language designed for modeling and programming distributed systems composed of mobile components where distribution awareness and dynamic system architect...
Rocco De Nicola, Diego Latella, Mieke Massink
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
130views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
16 years 10 days ago
Graceful service degradation (or, how to know your payment is late)
When distributing digital content over a broadcast channel it’s often necessary to revoke users whose access privileges have expired, thus preventing them from recovering the co...
Alexandr Andoni, Jessica Staddon
SIGIR
2005
ACM
16 years 10 days ago
Relevance information: a loss of entropy but a gain for IDF?
When investigating alternative estimates for term discriminativeness, we discovered that relevance information and idf are much closer related than formulated in classical literat...
Arjen P. de Vries, Thomas Rölleke