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Capturing the Moment: Lightweight Similarity Computations

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Similarity computations are crucial in various web activities like advertisements, search or trust-distrust predictions. These similarities often vary with time as product perception and popularity constantly change with users' evolving inclination. The hu ...

IEEE2017

Analysing the Role of Social Visits on Migrants’ Social Capital: A Personal Network Approach

Gil Viry, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet

There are concerns that migrants may be embedded in far-flung networks with support being less collective. The spatial dispersion of their relatives and friends would result in fragmented networks with lower solidarity and lower mutual trust than densely c ...

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Elicitation and Aggregation of Crowd Information

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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 ...

EPFL2016

Privacy-Preserving Function Computation by Exploitation of Friendships in Social Networks

Martin Vetterli, Patrick Thiran, Farid Movahedi Naini, Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan

We study the problem of privacy-preserving computation of functions of data that belong to users in a social network under the assumption that users are willing to share their private data with trusted friends in the network. We demonstrate that such trust ...

Ieee2014

Population Sensing Using Mobile Devices : a Statistical Opportunity or a Privacy Nightmare?

Farid Movahedi Naini

In our daily lives, our mobile phones sense our movements and interactions via a rich set of embedded sensors such as a GPS, Bluetooth, accelerometers, and microphones. This enables us to use mobile phones as agents for collecting spatio-temporal data. The ...

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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

Computational modeling of face-to-face social interaction using nonverbal behavioral cues

Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

The computational modeling of face-to-face interactions using nonverbal behavioral cues is an emerging and relevant problem in social computing. In the thesis, we have investigated individual social constructs in small groups such as dominance and status ( ...

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne2011

My3: A highly-available P2P-based online social network

Karl Aberer, Rammohan Narendula

As the online social networks (OSNs), such as Facebook, witness explosive growth, the privacy challenges gain critical consideration from governmental and law agencies due to concentration of vast amount of personal information within a single administrati ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

The impact of disappointment in decision making: inter-individual differences and electrical neuroimaging

Disappointment, the emotion experienced when faced to reward prediction errors (RPEs), considerably impacts decision making (DM). Individuals tend to modify their behavior in an often unpredictable way just to avoid experiencing negative emotions. Despite ...

2011

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