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October 28, 2019 (v1)Conference paperUploaded on: December 4, 2022
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July 14, 2019 (v1)Conference paper
O tempo que usuários passam nas redes sociais é um tema em voga. A retenção das redes sociais tem importantes implicaçôs, que extrapolam o campo social atingindo aspectos econômicos, psicológicos e de infraestrutura da rede. Neste artigo, consideramos o problema da determinação da taxa ótima de acesso a uma rede social. Para tal, propomos um...
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2022 (v1)Journal article
Masks save lives. Therefore, whilst the culture of wearing masks is promoted, it is critical to understand the various aspects of how that culture is adopted. The main contribution of this paper is in the modeling of the mask game. Wearing a mask provides partial protection against epidemics at some cost of comfort. Players can be...
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February 2019 (v1)Journal article
Facebook News Feed personalization algorithm has a significant impact, on a daily basis, on the lifestyle, mood and opinion of millions of Internet users. Nonetheless, the behavior of such algorithm lacks transparency, motivating measurements, modeling and analysis in order to understand and improve its properties. In this paper, we propose a...
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August 28, 2018 (v1)Conference paper
Facebook News Feed personalization algorithm has a significant impact, on a daily basis, on the lifestyle, mood and opinion of millions of Internet users. Nonetheless, the behavior of such algorithms usually lacks transparency, motivating measurements, modeling and analysis in order to understand and improve its properties. In this paper, we...
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December 5, 2018 (v1)Conference paper
Facebook News Feed personalization algorithm has a significant impact, on a daily basis, on the lifestyle, mood and opinion of millions of Internet users. Nonetheless, the behavior of such algorithm lacks transparency, motivating measurements, modeling and analysis in order to understand and improve its properties. In this paper, we propose a...
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January 25, 2019 (v1)Journal article
Facebook News Feed personalization algorithm has a significant impact, on a daily basis, on the lifestyle, mood and opinion of millions of Internet users. Nonetheless, the behavior of such algorithm lacks transparency, motivating measurements, modeling and analysis in order to understand and improve its properties. In this paper, we propose a...
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January 17, 2020 (v1)Journal article
We model the competition over mining resources and over several cryptocurrencies as a non-cooperative game. Leveraging results about congestion games, we establish conditions for the existence of pure Nash equilibria and provide efficient algorithms for finding such equilibria.We account for multiple system models, varying according to the way...
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2020 (v1)Journal article
Herd immunity, one of the most fundamental concepts in network epidemics, occurs when a large fraction of the population of devices is immune against a virus or malware. The few individuals who have not taken countermeasures against the threat are assumed to have very low chances of infection, as they are indirectly protected by the rest of the...
Uploaded on: December 4, 2022