Publications related to Online research community

Content Moderation in Online Platforms

A critical role of online platforms like Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon, Doordash, and Tinder is to moderate content. Interventions like banning users or deleting comments are carried out thousands of times daily and can potentially improve our onlin ...

EPFL2024

The DB Community vis-a-vis Environmental, Health, and Societal Grand Challenges: Innovation Engine, Plumber, or Bystander?

Anastasia Ailamaki

This panel considers the role of the database research community in addressing humanity's greatest challenges. Are we an innovation engine, tool providers, or are we standing on the side while other research communities take the lead? ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Vehicle trajectory prediction works, but not everywhere

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Seyed Mohsen Moosavi Dezfooli, Saeed Saadatnejad, Ahmad Rahimi, Mohammadhossein Bahari

Vehicle trajectory prediction is nowadays a fundamental pillar of self-driving cars. Both the industry and research communities have acknowledged the need for such a pillar by providing public benchmarks. While state-of-the-art methods are impressive, i.e. ...

IEEE2022

Exploiting Errors for Efficiency: A Survey from Circuits to Applications

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Eva Darulova, Mattia Cacciotti, Damien Zufferey, Dorde Jevdic, Sasa Misailovic

When a computational task tolerates a relaxation of its specification or when an algorithm tolerates the effects of noise in its execution, hardware, system software, and programming language compilers or their runtime systems can trade deviations from cor ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Discrete choice and machine learning: Thomson and Thompson?

Michel Bierlaire

Classification methods from machine learning are receiving a lot of attention in the transportation modelling community. This is motivated by the access to large databases, and to various success stories reported in this research community. Discrete choice ...

2019

A Survey on Interdependent Privacy

Kévin Clément Huguenin, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Benjamin Trubert

The privacy of individuals does not only depend on their own actions and data but may also be affected by the privacy decisions and by the data shared by others individuals. This interdependence is an essential aspect of privacy and ignoring it can lead to ...

2019

Tracing Teacher Collaborative Learning and Innovation Adoption: a Case Study in an Inquiry Learning Platform

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos

Social processes play an important role in teachers' ongoing professional learning: through interactions with peers and experts to solve problems or co-create materials, teachers internalize knowledge developed in their communities. However, these social p ...

International Society of Learning Sciences2019

We get the algorithms of our ground truths: Designing referential databases in digital image processing

Florian Lucas Jaton

This article documents the practical efforts of a group of scientists designing an imageprocessing algorithm for saliency detection. By following the actors of this computer science project, the article shows that the problems often considered to be the st ...

SAGE Publications2017

Smart Microgrids as a Solution for Rural Electrification: Ensuring Long-Term Sustainability Through Cadastre and Business Models

Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro

The provision of energy at the local level by using renewable and local resources is increasingly acknowledged as a techno-economic solution for rural electrification. This work describes an approach for implementing microgrid projects at the institutional ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

A Model of Online Social Interactions based on Sentiment Analysis and Content Similarity

Boi Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Philippe Henri Jean Roussille

In this paper we create a model of human behavior in online communities, based on the network topology and on the communication content. The model contains eleven distinct hypotheses, which validate three intuitions. The rst intuition is that the network t ...

2013

Direct Negative Opinions in Online Discussions

Boi Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Philippe Henri Jean Roussille

In this paper we investigate the impact of antagonism in online discussions. We define antagonism as a new class of textual opinions - direct sentiment towards the authors of previous comments. We detect the negative sentiment using aspect-based opinion mi ...

2013

From big smartphone data to worldwide research: The Mobile Data Challenge

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Imad Aad, Olivier Dousse, Julien Eberle

This paper presents an overview of the Mobile Data Challenge (MDC), a large-scale research initiative aimed at generating innovations around smartphone-based research, as well as community-based evaluation of mobile data analysis methodologies. First, we r ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Efficient monitoring of personalized hot news over Web 2.0 streams

Karl Aberer, Sebastian Michel, Parisa Haghani

Web 2.0 streams, like blog postings, microblogging tweets, or RSS feeds from online communities, offer a wealth of latest news about real-world events and societal discussion. From a user’s perspective, it becomes harder and harder to get a decent overview ...

2012

Multi-Graph Sampling Of Online Communities Via Mean Hitting Time

We derive a framework for sampling online communities based on the mean hitting time of its members, considering that there are multiple graphs associated with the same vertex set V representing the social network. First, we formulate random walk models on ...

Ieee2012

Modeling and Understanding Communities in Online Social Media using Probabilistic Methods

Radu Andrei Negoescu

The amount of multimedia content is on a constant increase, and people interact with each other and with content on a daily basis through social media systems. The goal of this thesis was to model and understand emerging online communities that revolve aro ...

EPFL2011

Modeling and Understanding Flickr Communities through Topic-based Analysis

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

With the increased presence of digital imaging devices there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from passive consumers of media into content creators and have started organizing themselves in ...

2010

Synergies of different reputation systems: challenges and opportunities

Karl Aberer

Reputation is a well established means to determine trustworthiness in online systems in various contexts, e.g. online transactions, product recommendation, e-mail spam fighting, etc. However, typically these reputation systems are "closed" outside of the ...

IEEE Computer Society2009

Open source corporate strategy (OSCS) : unveiling the firm's open sources of competitive advantage

Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez

This doctoral dissertation defines and sheds light on a nascent phenomenon in management, informally referred to as "crowdsourcing". I term this concept Open Source Corporate Strategy, or OSCS, which borrows insights from the open source innovation literat ...

EPFL2008

Truthful reputation mechanisms for online systems

Radu Jurca

The internet is moving rapidly towards an interactive milieu where online communities and economies gain importance over their traditional counterparts. While this shift creates opportunities and benefits that have already improved our day-to-day life, it ...

EPFL2007

Building trust-aware P2P systems : from trust and reputation management to decentralized e-commerce applications

Zoran Despotovic

This thesis is concerned with enabling e-commerce applications in decentralized environments, P2P networks in particular. The work goes along the following two dimensions: P2P reputation systems design and building P2P e-commerce services and applications. ...

EPFL2005