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Adaptive Methods for Aggregated Domain Generalization
Xavier Thomas, Dhruv Mahajan, Alex Pentland +1
Domain generalization involves learning a classifier from a heterogeneous collection of training sources such that it generalizes to data drawn from similar unknown target domains,…
What are the key components of an entrepreneurial ecosystem in a developing economy? A longitudinal empirical study on technology business incubators in China
Xiangfei Yuan, Haijing Hao, Chenghua Guan +1
Since the 1980s, technology business incubators (TBIs), which focus on accelerating businesses through resource sharing, knowledge agglomeration, and technology innovation, have be…
The predictability of consumer visitation patterns
Coco Krumme, Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Cebrián +3
We consider hundreds of thousands of individual economic transactions to ask: how predictable are consumers in their merchant visitation patterns? Our results suggest that, in the…
Urban characteristics attributable to density-driven tie formation
Wei Pan, Gourab Ghoshal, Coco Krumme +2
Motivated by empirical evidence on the interplay between geography, population density and societal interaction, we propose a generative process for the evolution of social structu…
Modeling Dynamical Influence in Human Interaction Patterns
Wei Pan, Manuel Cebrian, Wen Dong +3
How can we model influence between individuals in a social system, even when the network of interactions is unknown? In this article, we review the literature on the "influence mod…
Time Critical Social Mobilization: The DARPA Network Challenge Winning Strategy
Galen Pickard, Iyad Rahwan, Wei Pan +4
It is now commonplace to see the Web as a platform that can harness the collective abilities of large numbers of people to accomplish tasks with unprecedented speed, accuracy and s…
Patterns of Individual Shopping Behavior
Coco Krumme, Manuel Cebrian, Alex Pentland
Much of economic theory is built on observations of aggregate, rather than individual, behavior. Here, we present novel findings on human shopping patterns at the resolution of a s…
Modeling Corporate Epidemiology
Benjamin Waber, Ellen Pollock, Manuel Cebrian +3
Corporate responses to illness is currently an ad-hoc, subjective process that has little basis in data on how disease actually spreads at the workplace. Additionally, many studies…
Social Networks and Spin Glasses
Scott Kirkpatrick, Alex Kulakovsky, Manuel Cebrian +1
The networks formed from the links between telephones observed in a month's call detail records (CDRs) in the UK are analyzed, looking for the characteristics thought to identify a…