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We consider a community of private sensors that collect measurements of a physical phenomenon, such as air pollution, and report it to a center. The center should be able to prevent low quality reports from degrading the quality of the aggregated informati ...
This study examines the role of reputation on decision making under ambiguity. Drawing on social cognition and behavioral theories, we propose that a firm's reputation exerts dual pressures on its decision making under ambiguity. On the one hand, a firm's ...
Social network has extended its popularity from the Internet to mobile domain. Personal mobile devices can be self-organized and communicate with each other for instant social activities at any time and in any places to achieve pervasive social networking ...
Prior studies have examined the relationship between organizational ethical climates and an array of work-related attitudes and behaviors. However, current research is hampered by the lack of knowledge on how ethical climates relate to organizational outco ...
As the number of contributors to online peer-production systems grows, it becomes increasingly important to predict whether the edits that users make will eventually be beneficial to the project. Existing solutions either rely on a user reputation system o ...
This thesis addresses challenges in elicitation and aggregation of crowd information for settings where an information collector, called center, has a limited knowledge about information providers, called agents. Each agent is assumed to have noisy private ...
Reputation systems help users evaluate information quality and incentivize civilized behavior, often by tallying feedback from other users such as "likes" or votes and linking these scores to a user’s long-term identity. This identity linkage enables user ...
We report on the live evaluation of various news recom- mender systems conducted on the website swissinfo.ch. We demonstrate that there is a major diffierence between offine and online accuracy evaluations. In an offine setting, rec- ommending most popular ...
We contribute to the ongoing debate on the differential effects of two important intangible assets on organizational outcomes: reputation and status. We explore whether they exert distinct signaling effects on external parties whom evaluate the quality of ...
Sharing economy platforms such as Airbnb and Uber face a major challenge in the form of peer-to-peer discrimination based on sensitive personal attributes such as race and gender. As shown by a recent study under controlled settings, reputation systems can ...