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Peer pressure

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Eliciting Truthful Information with the Peer Truth Serum

Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca, Goran Radanovic

We consider settings where a collective intelligence is formed by aggregating information contributed from many independent agents, such as product reviews, community sensing or opinion polls. To encourage participation and avoid selection bias, agents sho ...

2014

Personalizing Top-k Processing Online in a Peer-to-Peer Social Tagging Network

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec

The rapidly increasing amount of user-generated content in social tagging systems provides a huge source of information. Yet, performing effective search in these systems is very challenging, especially when we seek the most appropriate items that match a ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2014

The dynamics of health behavior sentiments on a large online social network

Marcel Salathé

Modifiable health behaviors, a leading cause of illness and death in many countries, are often driven by individual beliefs and sentiments about health and disease. Individual behaviors affecting health outcomes are increasingly modulated by social network ...

2013

Peculiarities in the pressure dependence of photoluminescence in InAlN

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin

Studies of ambient-pressure and high-pressure behavior of photoluminescence (PL) for series of InxAl1-xN layers are presented. The measured evolution of PL energy (E-PL) with x is characterized by a clear decrease of E-PL and exhibits a strong bowing. This ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2013

Trust-aware peer sampling: Performance and privacy tradeoffs

Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Davide Frey, Julien Michel Stainer

The ability to identify people that share one's own interests is one of the most interesting promises of the Web 2.0 driving user-centric applications such as recommendation systems or collaborative marketplaces. To be truly useful, however, information ab ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Fuzzynet: Ringless Routing in a Ring-like Structured Overlay

Karl Aberer, Anwitaman Datta, Wojciech Galuba, Sarunas Girdzijauskas

Many structured overlay networks rely on a ring invariant as a core network connectivity element. The responsibility ranges of the participating peers and navigability principles (greedy routing) heavily depend on the ring structure. For correctness guaran ...

2011

Structured Overlay For Heterogeneous Environments: Design and Evaluation of Oscar

Karl Aberer, Anwitaman Datta, Sarunas Girdzijauskas

Recent years have seen advances in building large internet-scale index structures, generally known as structured overlays. Early structured overlays realized distributed hash tables (DHTs) which are ill suited for anything but exact queries. The need to su ...

2010

High Quality P2P Service Provisioning via Decentralized Trust Management

Hung Le Vu

Trust management is essential to fostering cooperation and high quality service provisioning in several peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. Among those applications are customer-to-customer (C2C) trading sites and markets of services implemented on top of cen ...

EPFL2010

Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement

Andreas Fuster, Stephan Meier

Monetary incentives, such as subsidies or bonuses, are often considered as a way to foster contributions to public goods in society and firms. This paper investigates experimentally the effect of private contribution incentives in the presence of a norm en ...

2010

Game Theory Video Streaming

Mahdad Hosseini Kamal

We consider the problem of peer selection for multimedia trans- mission over a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to find a strategy model for peer selection for each lost packet. Our problem consists of two parts one related to the P2P network that is a peer sele ...

2009

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