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Microeconomics and social systems applies social sciences techniques, including algorithmic game theory, economics, network analysis, psychology, ethnography, and mechanism design, to online situations. We explore how participants interact and model and build systems.
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Recent Publications
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Financial Incentives and the 'Performance of Crowds'
Winter A. Mason; Duncan J. Watts, KDD-HCOMP '09, 2009
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Characterizing Individual Communication Patterns
Dean Malmgren; Jake Hofman; Luís Amaral; Duncan Watts, KDD 2009, 2009
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Givin’ You More of What You’re Funkin’ For: DJs and the Internet
Elizabeth Churchill, interactions, ACM Press, 2009
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A Kernel Method for Market Clearing
Sebastien Lahaie, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2009
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Conversations in Developer Communities: a Preliminary Analysis of the Yahoo! Pipes Community
M. Cameron Jones; Elizabeth F. Churchill, International Conference on Communities and Technologies, ACM, 2009
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Social Search in ‘Small-World’ Experiments
Sharad Goel, Roby Muhamad, and Duncan J. Watts, WWW 2009, 2009
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Spinning Online: A Case Study of Internet Broadcasting by DJs
David A. Shamma; Elizabeth Churchill; Nikhil Bobb; Matt Fukuda, Communities & Technology, ACM, 2009
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On trusting your socks to find each other
Elizabeth Churchill, interactions, ACM Press, 2009
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Learning How: The Search for Craft Knowledge on the Internet
Cristen Torrey; Elizabeth F. Churchill; David W. McDonald, CHI 2009, ACM Press, 2009
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Information Flows in a Gallery-Work-Entertainment Space: The Effect of a Digital Bulletin Board on Social Encounters
Elizabeth Churchill; Les Nelson, Human Organization, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2009, 2
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Social Lending
Ning Chen; Arpita Ghosh; Nicolas Lambert, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'09), 2009
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Universally Utility-Maximizing Privacy Mechanisms
Arpita Ghosh; Tim Roughgarden; Mukund Sundararajan, ACM Symposium on Theory of Computer Science (STOC) 2009, 2009
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Adaptive bidding for display advertising
Arpita Ghosh; Benjamin Rubinstein; Sergei Vassilvitskii; Martin Zinkevich, WWW 2009, 2009
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Autonomous Expressionism: a Framework for Installation Directed Network Arts
David A. Shamma, International Journal of Arts and Technology, Inderscience Publishers, 2009, 1
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Zync with Me: Synchronized Sharing of Video through Instant Messaging
David A. Shamma; Yiming Liu; Pablo Cesar, David Geerts, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, 2009
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GuruMine: a Pattern Mining System for Discovering Leaders and Tribes
Amit Goyal; Byung-Won On; Francesco Bonchi; Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, ICDE, IEEE, 2009
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Online story scheduling in web advertising
Anirban Dasgupta; Arpita Ghosh; Hamid Nazerzadeh; Prabhakar Raghavan, SODA 2009, 2009
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The structure of information pathways in a social communication network
Gueorgi Kossinets, Jon Kleinberg, and Duncan J. Watts, KDD 2008, 2008
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Leading the Herd Astray: An Experimental Study of Self-fulfilling Prophecies in an Artificial Cultural Market
Matthew J. Salganik and Duncan J. Watts, Social Psychology Quarterly, 2008
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Social Influence, Binary Decisions and Collective Dynamics
Dunia Lopez-Pintado and Duncan J. Watts., Rationality and Society, 2008
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Periodicity detection and localization using spike timing from the AER EAR
Yu, Theodore Schwartz, Andrew ; Harris, John ; Slaney, Malcolm ; Liu, Shih-Chii, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2009. ISCAS 2009., IEEE, 2009
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Reconciliation of human and machine speech recogntition performance
Misha Pavel; Malcolm Slaney; Hynek Hermansky, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE, 2009
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Resolving Tag Ambiguity
Kilian Weinberger; Malcolm Slaney; Roelof Zwol, ACM Multimedia, ACM, 2008
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Continuous Visual Vocabulary Models for pLSA-Based Scene Recognition
Eva Hörster; Rainer Lienhart; Malcolm Slaney, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), ACM, 2008
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Analysis of Minimum Distances in High-Dimensional Musical Spaces
Michael Casey; Christophe Rhodes; Malcolm Slaney, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE, 2008, 5
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Content-Based Music Information Retrieval: Current Directions and Future Challenges
Michael A. Casey; R. Veltkamp; M. Goto; M. Leman; C. Rhodes; Malcolm Slaney, Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE, 2008, 4
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Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Finding Nearest Neighbors
Malcolm Slaney; Michael Casey, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2008, 2
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Music Information Retrieval
Malcolm Slaney; D. P. W. Ellis; M. Sandler; M. Goto; M. Goodwin, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE, 2008, 2
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Learning a metric for music similiarity
Malcolm Slaney; Kilian Weinberger; William White, Proceedings of the International Society of Music-Information Retrieval, 2008
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Acoustic Chord Transcription and Key Extraction From Audio Using Key-Dependent HMMs Trained on Synthesized A
Kyogu Lee; Malcolm Slaney, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE, 2008, 2
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Comparing Local Feature Descriptors in pLSA-Based Image Models
Eva Hörster; Thomas Greif; Rainer Lienhart; Malcolm Slaney; G. Rigoll, 30th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), Springer Verlag, 2008
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Keyholes: Selective Sharing in Close Collaboration
Les Nelson; Diana Smetters; Elizabeth F. Churchill, CHI 2008, ACM Press, 2008, alt.chi
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MapChat: Conversing in Place
Elizabeth F. Churchill; Elizabeth Goodman; Joseph OSullivan, CHI 2008, ACM Press, 2008
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Boosting image retrieval through aggregating search results based on visual annotations
X. Olivares; M. Ciaramita; R. van Zwol, ACM Multimedia, ACM, 2008
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Video Tag Game
van Zwol, Roelof ; Lluis Garcia ; Georgina Ramirez ; Borkur Sigurbjornsson ; Marcos Labad, 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW developer track), ACM Press, 2008
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Enhancing online personal connections through the synchronized sharing of online video
Shamma, D. A.; Bastéa-Forte, M.; Joubert, N.; Liu, Y., Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM, 2008
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Flickr Tag Recommendation based on Collective Knowledge
Borkur Sigurbjornsson ; van Zwol, Roelof, 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), ACM Press, 2008
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Dynamic Visualization of Music Classification Systems
Kris West; J. Stephen Downie; Xiao Hu; M. Cameron Jones, SIGIR, ACM, 2008
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PLSA on Large-scale Image Databases
Rainer Lienhart; Malcolm Slaney, Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE, 2007
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Image retrieval on large-scale image databases
Eva Hörster; Rainer Lienhart; Malcolm Slaney, Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval CIVR ’07, ACM, 2007
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