How is interacting with computer programs different from interacting with people? One answer in the literature is that these two types of interactions are similar. The present stu...
Abstract: Research in sociology studies the effectiveness of social networks in achieving computational tasks. Typically the agents who are supposed to achieve a task are unaware o...
We determine the communication complexity of the common voting rules. The rules (sorted by their communication complexity from low to high) are plurality, plurality with runoff, ...
This paper describes a group attention control (GAC) system that enables a communication robot to simultaneously interact with many people. GAC is based on controlling social situ...
Strong social connections permeate one's daily life. With the numerous means available, these connections can easily dominate one's communications, though one only wants...