Crowds: Anonymity for Web Transactions

This is the original Crowds paper from Reiter and Rubin. Please consider it required reading.

Crowds: Anonymity for Web Transactions

This is the original Crowds paper from Reiter and Rubin. Please consider it required reading.

INFO6003 (2013) Crowds: Anonymity for Web Transactions -- Paper

This is the original Crowds paper from Reiter and Rubin. Please consider it required reading.

European Union Trade Policy after Enlargement: Larger Crowds, Shifting Priorities and Informal Decision-Making

The article focuses on the effects of Eastern enlargement on EU trade policy-making. On interest constellation, the article makes a case that protectionist forces have been strengthened relative to liberal forces. This slight protectionist turn is mostly witnessed in the area of anti-dumping and with respect to the Doha trade round. On preference aggregation, guided by a principal–agent framework, it is argued that the growth in the number of actors (principals and interest groups) has not constrained the role of the European Commission (agent). However, it has led to an increase in informal processes and has empowered large trading nations vis-a`-vis smaller and less ‘comitology-experienced’ member states.

Influence of crowds in the dynamic characteristics of a structure

The interest for modelling of human actions acting on structures has been recurrent since the first accidents on suspension bridges in the nineteenth century like Broughton (1831) in the U.K. or Angers (1850) in France. Stadiums, gymnasiums are other type of structure where the human induced vibration is very important. In these structures appear particular phenomenon like the interaction person-structure (lock-in), the person-person synchronization, and the influence of the mass and damping of the people in the structure behaviour. This work focuses on the latter topic. The dynamic characteristic of a structure can be changed due to the presence of people on it. In order to evaluate these property modifications several testing have been carried out on a structure designed to be a gymnasium. For the test an electro-dynamic shaker was installed in a fixed point of the gym slab and different groups of people were located around the shaker. In each test the number of people was changed and also their posture (standing and sitting). Test data were analyzed and processed to verify modifications in the structure behaviour.

The behavior of crowds;

Mode of access: Internet.

Crowds; a moving-picture of democracy

Mode of access: Internet.

Crowds;

Crowds and machines -- Letting the crowds be good -- Letting the crowd be beautiful -- Crowds and heroes -- Good news and hard work.

Travel Show - Crowds

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Travel Show - Crowds

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