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A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Conversational Agents in Digital Education
The presence of conversational agents (or chatbots) in educational contexts has been steadily increasing over the past few years. Recent surveys have shown widespread interest in the use of chatbots in education, both for research and practice. Although th ...
EPFL2023The Advent of the Sharing Culture and its Effect on Product Pricing
Thomas Alois Weber, Maryam Razeghian Jahromi
Empirical observations suggest that consumers' propensity towards sharing varies with culture and the individuals' socio-demographic characteristics. In an economy with overlapping generations of heterogeneous consumers, we study optimal dynamic selling by ...
2019Social-Aware Replication in Geo-Diverse Online Systems
Distributing long-tail content is a difficult task due to the low amortization of bandwidth transfer costs as such content has limited number of views. Two recent trends are making this problem harder. First, the increasing popularity of user-generated con ...
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015Tracking freeriders in gossip-based content dissemination systems
Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Maxime Monod
Gossip-based protocols have proven very efficient for disseminating high-bandwidth content such as video streams in a peer-to-peer fashion. However, for the protocols to work, nodes are required to collaborate by devoting a fraction of their upload bandwid ...
Elsevier2014Towards a global participatory platform Democratising open data, complexity science and collective intelligence
The FuturICT project seeks to use the power of big data, analytic models grounded in complexity science, and the collective intelligence they yield for societal benefit. Accordingly, this paper argues that these new tools should not remain the preserve of ...
Springer Verlag2012