Reddit is a social news website that aims to provide user privacy by encouraging them to use pseudonyms and refraining from any kind of personal data collection. However, users are often not aware of possibilities to indirectly gather a lot of information about them by analyzing their contributions and behaviour on this site. In order to investigate the feasibility of large-scale user classific...

Nowadays the Web poses itself as the largest data repository ever available in the history of humankind (Reis et al., 2004). However, the availability of huge amount of Web data does not imply that users can get whatever they want more easily. On the contrary, the massive amount of data on the Web has overwhelmed their abilities to find the desired information. It has been claimed that 99% of t...

Educational opportunities which allow for some understanding of the importance and functioning of small groups have been until very recently, conspicuously absent in psychiatric training. Since 1965, the department of psychiatry at Yale has conducted a formal group training program in which residents experience and study the behavior of groups. Prior to this a number of faculty members particip...

Introduction The Twentieth Century has seen efforts to more directly involve individuals in governmental decision-making. A series of policies and methods to accomplish this generally goes under the name of citizen participation. Two threads of thought underlie the notion of citizen participation, individuals as consumers of government services and individuals as citizens with appropriate right...

We have designed configurable agents to represent users in online auctions, specificMly the Michigan AuctionBot. The agents can be configured, started, and monitored from a web interface. We implemented three types of agents, distinguished by their different ways of using information in the auctions. A competitive agent does not use any information in the auction market. It chooses its actions ...

PHOTO: The sun sets behind the Commissions building where the U.S. military held preliminary hearings for four detainees charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, August 2004. (AFP, Mark Wilson) Amitai Etzioni I CURRENT HOSTILITIES in Iraq, Afghanistan, parts of Pakistan, and elsewhere, from Colombia to the Horn of Africa, nonstate actors—in part...

A fair number of social scientists, several journals such as the Journal of Economy and Philosophy, the Journal of Behavioral Economics, and the Journal of Economic Psychology, a new section of the American Economics Association, and several symposia (such as the one published by the Journal ofBusiness in 1086) are attempting to develop a new paradigm tha t will expand the range of sociological...

The web is a vast repository of knowledge, but automatically extracting that knowledge, at scale, has proven to be a formidable challenge. A number of recent evaluation efforts have focused on automatic knowledge base population (Ji, Grishman, and Dang 2011; Artiles and Mayfield 2012), and many well-known broad domain and open information extraction systems exist, including the Never-Ending Lan...

When a theory faces a set of facts that are not compatible with its key assumptions, there are several ways it might respond. In response to the challenge posed by behavioral economics, neoclassical economics has attempted numerous different approaches. After briefly reviewing these responses, this paper turns to argue in favor of one of them. 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. When a theo...

AMITAI ETZIONI is University Professor at George Washington Utriversity, H/ashiiigIon. D.C. This article is bused on Chapter 6 of his latest book. An Immodest Agenda (New York: McGraw-Hill. 19821. 1982. Arnitai Etzioni. uch of the talk about the cognitive deficiencies exhibited by many U.S. pupils tends to focus on teaching methods (e.g., phonics versus sightreading) and teaching resources (e.g...