Today many people with serious diseases use online support groups to seek social support. For these groups to be sustained and effective, member retention and commitment is import...
We believe that intelligent information agents will represent their users interest in electronic marketplaces and other forums to trade, exchange, share, identify, and locate goods...
Abstract. Cognition of technical systems, as the ability to perceive situations, to learn about favorable behavior, and to autonomously generate decisions, adds new attributes to s...
Sebastian Kain, Hao Ding, Frank Schiller, Olaf Stu...
Abstract. We initiate a theoretical study of the census problem. Informally, in a census individual respondents give private information to a trusted party (the census bureau), who...
Shuchi Chawla, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Adam...
An epidemic spreading in a network calls for a decision on the part of the network members: They should decide whether to protect themselves or not. Their decision depends on the ...
George Theodorakopoulos, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, John...