Lottery has Orwellian resonances

Mandatory HIV testing: an Orwellian proposition.

Orwellian Eye: Video Recommendation with Microsoft Kinect

This paper demonstrates Interest Beat (InBeat.eu) as a recommender system for online videos, which determines user interest in the content based on gaze tracking with Microsoft Kinect in addition to explicit user feedback. Content of the videos is represented using a semantic wikifier. User profile is constructed from preference rules, which are discovered with an association rule learner.

Lottery Qualities

The aim of this paper is to propose a model of decision-making for lotteries. Lottery qualities are the key concepts of the theory. Qualities allow the derivation of optimal decision-making processes and are taken explicitly into account for lottery evaluation. Our contribution explains the major violations of the expected utility theory for decisions on two-point lotteries and shows the necess...

The Lottery Paradox Generalized?

In a recent article, Douven and Williamson offer both (i) a rebuttal of various recent suggested sufficient conditions for rational acceptability and (ii) an alleged ‘generalization’ of this rebuttal, which, they claim, tells against a much broader class of potential suggestions. However, not only is the result mentioned in (ii) not a generalization of the findings referred to in (i), but in co...

Anonymous Electronic Lottery Protocol1

Due to the mature of networks and communication technologies, electronic commerce is growing up rapidly and many advanced applications in electronic commerce have been developed recently, such as on-line shopping, on-line bidding, and on-line gambling. There are numerous types of gambling like typical lottery, sport lottery, and poker gambling. Our research will focus on the lottery games. Owin...