Taming the unpredictability of cultural markets with social influence

26th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2017

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 745-754

  Abeliuk, Andrs ^a   Berbeglia, Gerardo ^b   Van Hentenryck, Pascal ^c   Hogg, Tad ^d   Lerman, Kristina ^e  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Inst for Molecular Manufacturing   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HIGH-QUALITY PRODUCTS; MARKET SHARE; PRODUCT POSITIONING; RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS; RICH GET RICHER; SMALL FLUCTUATION; SOCIAL INFLUENCE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 85050642664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3038912.3052680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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