Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Department of Computer Science


CSCI 6963/4963: E-Commerce, Social Networks, and Collective Intelligence

Spring 2010

 
Brief Topic Summary Reading
Prediction Markets
Big picture [WZ 04]
Big picture [WZ 06]
Market-making in combinatorial prediction markets Chapter 26 of the textbook.
Market-making in combinatorial prediction markets [Han 03]
Information-based market making [DM 08]
General properties of bounded-loss market makers [CP 07]
Exploring the connection between prediction markets and mechanism design [Con 09]
Prediction markets and social networks [CWZ 09]
Wikipedia and the Blogosphere
The role of policies in Wikipedia [BJP 08]
Collective wisdom or an "elite" few? [KCPSM 07]
Conflict and coordination in Wikipedia [KSPC 07]
Structure of the blogosphere [KNRT 04]
The growth of Wikipedia [SL 08]
Edit dynamics in Wikipedia [WH 07]
A different take on edit dynamics [DM 09]
What is popular on Wikipedia? [Spo 07]
Open Source Software
Open source case-studies: Apache and Mozilla [MFH 02]
Popularity and Novelty: Models and Data
Model of popularity and novelty [WH 07]
Using the model to design strategies to maximize popularity [WH 08]
Tracking the news cycle [LBK 09]