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Holdout in the Assembly of Complements: A Problem for Market Design

E. Glen Weyl, Scott Duke Kominers

American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings | May 2012

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Understanding the Verbal Language and Structure of End-User Descriptions of Data Visualizations

Bongshin Lee, Nathalie henry riche, Mary Czerwinski, Nathalie Henry Riche

May 2012

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“Yours is better!” Participant Response Bias in HCI

Nicola Dell, Vidya Vaidyanathan, Indrani Medhi Thies, Ed Cutrell, Bill Thies

CHI 2012: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2012

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Lifting the mantle of protection from Weber’s presuppositions in his theory of bureaucracy

Graham Button, David Martin, Jacki O'Neill, Tommaso Colombino

Human Studies | May 2012

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The Shy Mayor: Private Badges in GeoSocial Networks

Bogdan Carbunar, Radu Sion, Rahul Potharaju, Moussa Ehsan

International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) | May 2012

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Influence Blocking Maximization in Social Networks under the Competitive Linear Threshold Model

Xinran He, Guojie Song, Wei Chen, Qingye Jiang

In Proceedings of the 12th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’2012), Anaheim, CA, U.S.A., April, 2012. | April 2012

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The Degree of Segregation in Social Networks

April 5, 2012 | Nicole Immorlica

Social networks form the basic medium of social interaction. The structure of these networks significantly impacts and co-evolves with the behavioral patterns of society. Important societal outcomes – the global reach of an epidemic, the…

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LBSN 2011 Workshop Report: The 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks

Yu Zheng, Mohamed F. Mokbel

ACM SIGSPATIAL | March 2012

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A Computational Approach to Media Bias

February 16, 2012 | Souneil Park

In this talk, we introduce our research on a major problem of journalism, i.e., the media bias problem. Bias of the news media is an inherent flaw of the news production process, spanning news gathering,…

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Microsoft Research Blog

Social Search Social Builds Bridges

February 14, 2012

By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Two conferences, same region, consecutive weeks—sounds like a perfect opportunity for a social. That’s certainly what sprang to mind for Meredith Ringel Morris, researcher in the Natural Interaction Research…