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Interpersonal ties

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Preliminary metadata paper. Data Domotopia: a web-based survey about home-making in a moving world.

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This questionnaire Data Domotopia is a 100+ multi-purpose items about home-making and stillness in a moving world. The survey covers most of the contemporary issues related to home-making. This includes the domestic space and gender issues; the socio-spati ...

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Dynamic Personalized Ranking

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Personalized ranking methods are at the core of many systems that learn to produce recommendations from user feedbacks. Their primary objective is to identify relevant items from very large vocabularies and to assist users in discovering new content. These ...

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Opinion Formation over Adaptive Networks

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An adaptive network consists of multiple communicating agents, equipped with sensing and learning abilities that allow them to extract meaningful information from measurements. The objective of the network is to solve a global inference problem in a decent ...

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‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility

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Reducing the modal share of car travel in commuting implies challenging meanings of everyday mobility that tie commuting to driving. Existing research has focussed on describing ways in which everyday mobility is meaningful. However, why shifts in meanings ...

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Strong, Weak and Invisible Ties: A Relational Perspective on Urban Coexistence

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The dichotomy between ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ ties is a common theme in sociological scholarship dealing with urban space, yet urban ethnographers have long been describing the prevalence of impersonal relations. Such relations can be described as fleeting enc ...

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Building relationships: Using embedded plug load sensors for occupant network inference

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Understanding the underlying structure of building occupant dynamics is crucial to improving the effectiveness and energy efficiency of commercial buildings, as occupants fundamentally drive building design and operation. In current practice, we largely ac ...

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Communication Versus Computation: Duality for Multiple-Access Channels and Source Coding

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Jingge Zhu

Computation codes in network information theory are designed for scenarios where the decoder is not interested in recovering the information sources themselves, but only a function thereof. Körner and Marton showed for distributed source coding (DSC) that ...

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Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions

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In 2012, a project proposed by local authorities aimed to revitalize, after a century of interruption, the use of Beijing’s Bell and Drum Towers and the social traditions associated with it. As a result, more than one hundred households living in 66 tradit ...

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Bartering Books to Beers: a Recommender System for Exchange Platforms

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Bartering is a timeless practice that is becoming increasingly popular on the Web. Recommending trades for an online bartering platform shares many similarities with traditional approaches to recommendation, in particular the need to model the preferences ...

2017

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