3 papers
cs.SI2012
Biased Assimilation, Homophily and the Dynamics of Polarization
Pranav Dandekar, Ashish Goel, David Lee
Are we as a society getting more polarized, and if so, why? We try to answer this question through a model of opinion formation. Empirical studies have shown that homophily results…
cs.GT2011
Privacy Auctions for Recommender Systems
Pranav Dandekar, Nadia Fawaz, Stratis Ioannidis
We study a market for private data in which a data analyst publicly releases a statistic over a database of private information. Individuals that own the data incur a cost for thei…
q-fin.TR2010
Liquidity in Credit Networks: A Little Trust Goes a Long Way
Pranav Dandekar, Ashish Goel, Ramesh Govindan +1
Credit networks represent a way of modeling trust between entities in a network. Nodes in the network print their own currency and trust each other for a certain amount of each oth…