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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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Mashing up Visual Languages and Web Mash-ups M. Cameron Jones; Elizabeth F. Churchill; Michael B. Twidale, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, IEEE, 2008 [view abstract]
Optimal Envy-free Pricing with Metric Substitutability Ning Chen; Arpita Ghosh; Sergei Vassilvitskii, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'08), 2008 [view abstract]
Propagation of Innovations in Networked Groups Winter Mason; Andy Jones; Robert L. Goldstone, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008 [view abstract]
Pricing Combinatorial Markets for Tournaments Yiling Chen; Sharad Goel; David Pennock, 40th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2008), 2008
WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications Fan Yang; Nitin Gupta; Chavdar Botev; Elizabeth Churchill; George Levchenko; Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, VLDB, 2008
Efficient Top-K Processing over Query-Dependent Functions Lin Guo; Sihem Amer-Yahia; Raghu Ramakrishnan; Jayavel Shanmugasundaram; Utkarsh Srivastava; Erik Vee, VLDB, 2008
Efficient Computation of Diverse Query Results Erik Vee; Utkarsh Srivastava; Jayavel Shanmugasundaram; Prashanth Bhat; Sihem Amer-Yahia, ICDE, 2008
On the Communication Requirements of Verifying the VCG Outcome Sebastien Lahaie; David C. Parkes, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2008
An Expressive Auction Design for Online Display Advertising Sebastien Lahaie; David C. Parkes; David M. Pennock, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008
Efficient Network-aware Search in Collaborative Tagging Sites Sihem Amer-Yahia, Michael Benedikt, Laks Lakshmanan, Julia Stoyanovich, VLDB, 2008
Self-financed Wagering Mechanisms for Forecasting Nicolas Lambert; John Langford; Jennifer Wortman; Yiling Chen; Daniel Reeves; Yoav Shoham; David Pennock, Electronic Commerce, 2008
Influence and Correlation in Social Networks Aris Anagnostopoulos; Ravi Kumar; Mohammad Mahdian, 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2008 [view abstract]
Charity Auctions on Social Networks Arpita Ghosh; Mohammad Mahdian, 19th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2008 [view abstract]
Dynamic Visualization of Music Classification Systems Kris West; J. Stephen Downie; Xiao Hu; M. Cameron Jones, SIGIR, ACM, 2008 [view abstract]
Externalities in Online Advertising Arpita Ghosh; Mohammad Mahdian, 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2008 [view abstract]
Charity Auctions on Social Networks Arpita Ghosh; Mohammad Mahdian, SODA 2008, 2008 [view abstract]
Situating social influence processes: Dynamic, multidirectional flows of influence within social networks Winter Mason; Frederica R. Conrey; Eliot R. Smith, Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2007, 3 [view abstract]
Sponsored Search Auctions Sebastien Lahaie; David M. Pennock; Amin Saberi; Rakesh V. Vohra, Algorithmic Game Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Mechanism Design on Trust Networks Ghosh, A.; Mahdian, M.; Pennock, D.M.; Reeves, D.M.; Fugger, R, 3rd international Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 2007 [view abstract]
Challenging the Influentials Hypothesis Duncan J. Watts, WOMMA Measuring Word of Mouth, 2007

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