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ACMDIS
2004
ACM
16 years 4 days ago
Easing the wait in the emergency room: building a theory of public information systems
In this paper we discuss a real world problem encountered during recent fieldwork: that of providing information in public settings when the information has both public and privat...
Eamonn O'Neill, Dawn Woodgate, Vassilis Kostakos
SIGDOC
2004
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
Automatic evaluation of aspects of document quality
Coh-Metrix is a web-based application currently in development that automatically evaluates text. It uses two central concepts from discourse processing: text-based cohesion and s...
David F. Dufty, Danielle S. McNamara, Max M. Louwe...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
120views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
16 years 3 days ago
Robust incentive techniques for peer-to-peer networks
Lack of cooperation (free riding) is one of the key problems that confronts today’s P2P systems. What makes this problem particularly difficult is the unique set of challenges ...
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, Ion Stoica, John Chuang
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
93views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
16 years 3 days ago
Strategic deliberation and truthful revelation: an impossibility result
In many market settings, agents do not know their preferences a priori. Instead, they may have to solve computationally complex optimization problems, query databases, or perform ...
Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2004
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
A Study of Limited-Precision, Incremental Elicitation in Auctions
We investigate the design of iterative, limited-precision mechanisms for single-good auctions with dominant strategy equilibria. Our aim is to design mechanisms that minimize the ...
Alexander Kress, Craig Boutilier