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JUCS
2006
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15 years 7 months ago
Restricting the View and Connecting the Dots - Dangers of a Web Search Engine Monopoly
: Everyone realizes how powerful the few big Web search engine companies have become, both in terms of financial resources due to soaring stock quotes and in terms of the still hid...
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, Wolf-Tilo Balke
FIRSTMONDAY
2007
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15 years 7 months ago
Scholarly publishing in sub-Saharan Africa in the twenty-first century: Challenges and opportunities
A free flow of ideas and information is vital to the process of scientific inquiry, and in turn to the ability to address economic, environmental and social development issues bot...
Ezra Ondari-Okemwa
GRID
2007
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Quality of Service Negotiation for Commercial Medical Grid Services
The GEMSS project has developed a service-oriented Grid that supports the provision of medical simulation services by service providers to clients such as hospitals. We outline the...
Stuart E. Middleton, Mike Surridge, Siegfried Benk...
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
138views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Generalized scoring rules and the frequency of coalitional manipulability
We introduce a class of voting rules called generalized scoring rules. Under such a rule, each vote generates a vector of k scores, and the outcome of the voting rule is based onl...
Lirong Xia, Vincent Conitzer
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
131views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
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Truthful germs are contagious: a local to global characterization of truthfulness
We study the question of how to easily recognize whether a social unction f from an abstract type space to a set of outcomes is truthful, i.e. implementable by a truthful mechanis...
Aaron Archer, Robert Kleinberg