Extracting collective probabilistic forecasts from Web games

Proceedings of the Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 174-183

  Pennock, David M ^a   Lawrence, Steve ^a   Nielsen, Finn Årup ^b   Giles, C Lee ^c  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial markets; Collective probabilistic forecasts; Data mining; Foresight Exchange; Formula One Pick Six Competition; Hollywood Stock Exchange; Knowledge discovery; World Wide Web games

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; FORECASTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

SCORES; WEB GAMES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0035788908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/502512.502537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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