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2010
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
How much is your personal recommendation worth?
Suppose you buy a new laptop and, simply because you like it so much, you recommend it to friends, encouraging them to purchase it as well. What would be an adequate price for the...
Paul Dütting, Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber
WISEC
2010
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
On the tradeoff between trust and privacy in wireless ad hoc networks
As privacy moves to the center of attention in networked systems, and the need for trust remains a necessity, an important question arises: How do we reconcile the two seemingly c...
Maxim Raya, Reza Shokri, Jean-Pierre Hubaux
HICSS
2010
IEEE
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Investigating the Drivers of the Continuous Use of Social Virtual Worlds
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) have become increasingly important environments for social interaction, especially for the younger generations. For SVWs to be economically sustainabl...
Matti Mäntymäki, Jani Merikivi
PDP
2010
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
SLA-driven Elastic Cloud Hosting Provider
—It is clear that Cloud computing is and will be a sea change for the Information Technology by changing the way in which both software and hardware are designed and purchased. I...
Josep Oriol Fito, Iñigo Goiri, Jordi Guitar...
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Exploring mobile technologies for the urban homeless
My research examines the practical and social impact of technology on the urban homeless. To accomplish this, I have conducted interviews with the homeless to understand how techn...
Christopher A. Le Dantec