| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND THE THRESHOLD EFFECT: TOWARDS A GENERAL TOOL FOR STUDYING DYNAMIC PHENOMENA ACROSS DIVERSE DOMAINS |
2010 |
118 |
Most interesting phenomena in natural and social systems include transitions and oscillations among their various phases. A new phase begins when the system reaches a threshold that marks a qualitative change in system characteristics. These threshol... |
| EVALUATING AND EXTENDING THE CONCEPT OF WISDOM OF CROWDS IN THE CONTEXT OF PROBLEM SOLVING |
2010 |
441 |
James Surowiecki in his book on the wisdom of crowds [Jame04] wrote about the decisions made based on the aggregation of information in groups. Knowing the many case studies and anecdotes which show the success of wisdom of crowds, he argues that und... |
| Toward a better understanding of viewers' perceptions of tag clouds : relative size judgment |
2013 |
691 |
This dissertation focuses on viewers' perception of the relative size of words presented in tag clouds. A tag cloud is a representation of the word content of a source document where the relative frequency, or importance, of the keywords (i.e., tags)... |