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- Social Computing Conference
- For those of us not actively toiling in a university, most modern writing in the social sciences can be placed into one of three categories. The first cate...For those of us not actively toiling in a university, most modern writing in the social sciences can be placed into one of three categories. The first category, which is vast, consists of the arcane and the incremental — those studies so obscure, or which advance scholarship so infinitesimally, that they can be safely ignored by the general reader. (Not that this work isn’t important; it keeps academic publishing in business, and significant knowledge accretes in tiny drips on the way to tenure.) The second category consists of statistical proof of the obvious. (Some actual study findings published recently: “the parent-child relationship . . . commonly includes feelings of irritation, tension and ambivalence”; women are more likely to engage in casual sex with “an exceptionally attractive man”; and driving while text-messaging leads to “a substantial increase in the risk of being involved in a safety-critical event such as a crash.” Thank you, social science!) And in the third category, which is surely the smallest, are works of brilliant originality that stimulate and enlighten and can sometimes even change the way we understand the world.
publications
- A. Baronchelli and L. Dall'Asta and A. Barrat and V. Loreto Artificial Life X, page 480-485. MIT Press, (2006)
- Ioannis Antonellis and Hector Garcia-Molina and Jawed Karim WSDM Late Breaking-Results, ACM, (2009)
- R.D. Luce Journal of Mathematical Psychology15(3):215--233(1977)
- D. Danks Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation, Oxford University Press, USA, (2007)
- Markus Strohmaier and Mark Kröll and Peter Prettenhofer Data Mining and Multi-agent Integration, (2009)
- A. Broder SEQUENCES '97: Proceedings of the Compression and Complexity of Sequences 1997, page 21. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (1997)
- W. Jones and A. J. Phuwanartnurak and R. Gill and H. Bruce CHI '05: CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, page 1505--1508. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2005)
- A. Zollers Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization Workshop, WWW07, (2007)
- R. Arakji and R. Benbunan-Fich and M. Koufaris Decision Support Systems47(3):245--253(2009)
- Elizeu Santos-Neto and David Condon and Nazareno Andrade and Adriana Iamnitchi and Matei Ripeanu HT '09: Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, New York, NY, USA, ACM, July 2009.
- S. Sen and S. K. Lam and A. Mamunur Rashid and D. Cosley and D. Frankowski and J. Osterhouse and F. Maxwell Harper and J. Riedl CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work, page 181--190. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2006)