The paper that started the Blockchain (and Bitcoin) revolution – Satoshi Nakamoto’s original whitepaper lays out the concept in simple, concise terms. A must read for anyone trying to understand the phenomenon.
Real-world information communities exhibit inherent structures that characterize a system that is stable and efficient for content production and consumption. This paper studies such structures through mathematical modeling and analysis by formulating a generic model of a community in which […]
What makes content go viral? Which videos become popular and why others don’t? A range of models have been recently proposed to explain and predict popularity; however, there is a short supply of practical tools, accessible for regular users, that […]
This paper discusses the best approaches to take with Genetic algorithms (GA), a branch of evolutionary computing (EC) that mimics the theory of evolution and natural selection, where the technique is based on an heuristic random search. Crossover and mutation […]
This paper addresses the important problem of discerning hateful content in social media. It proposes a detection scheme that is an ensemble of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) classifiers, and it incorporates various features associated with user-related information, such as the […]
This paper presents a study in Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning (DDRL) focused on scalability of a state-of-the-art Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithm known as Batch Asynchronous Advantage ActorCritic (BA3C). Using synchronous training on the node level (while keeping the local, single […]
This paper explores innovative techniques for combining data mining techniques in order to discover actionable marketing intelligence for ecommerce sites. The techniques combine online analytical mining with web usage mining approaches in order to provide personalization, adaptation, customization, profiling, and recommendation […]
As examples like Wikipedia, Google, and Linux illustrate, new information and communication technologies are now enabling dramatically new ways of connecting large numbers of people and computers to produce intelligent behavior. These new forms of “collective intelligence” are already having […]
Much work remains in the area of social conversation as well as free-form conversation over a broad range of domains and topics. To advance the state of the art in conversational AI, Amazon launched the Alexa Prize, a 2.5-million-dollar university […]
Given the epidemics of obesity and dietary-related chronic diseases, this paper argues that we need to do more research in food retail outlets by creating embedded consumer behavior laboratories. The point of purchase is a critical moment in consumer behavior. […]
