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Publications

  1. The Groupon Effect on Yelp Ratings: A Root Cause Analysis [arXiv]
    John Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zervas
    In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC) 2012

    Also, to be presented at the 8th Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR) 2012

    Media coverage
    NPR's Morning Edition featured a piece on our work on Friday, July 6. The Huffington Post also covered our work. The discussion on Hacker News is interesting.

  2. Daily Deals: Prediction, Social Diffusion, and Reputational Ramifications [arXiv] [Dataset]
    John Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zervas
    To appear in Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2012

    Media coverage
    Our work has received wide media coverage on various newspapers, magazines, and blogs among which The The New York Times, Time magazine, BU Today, the MIT Technology Review, The Atlantic, The Wall St. Journal, The CS Monitor, and more.

    John Byers was invited to discuss our work on WBUR 90.9, and Bloomberg TV.

  3. An Economic Analysis of User-Privacy Options in Ad-Supported Services [arXiv]
    Joan Feigenbaum, Michael Mitzenmacher and Georgios Zervas
    In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Internet & Network Economics (WINE) 2012

  4. Heapable Sequences and Subsequences [PDF]
    John Byers, Brent Heeringa, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zervas
    In Proceedings of the Workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics (ANALCO) 2011

  5. Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank
    John Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zervas
    In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC) 2010
    [PDF (Shorter EC version)] [PDF (Extended arXiv version)] [Dataset]

  6. Adaptive Weighing Designs for Keyword Value Computation [PDF]
    John Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zervas
    In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2010

  7. The Cache Inference Problem and its Application to Content and Request Routing [PDF]
    Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Zervas, Azer Bestavros, George Kollios
    In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2007

  8. The Curse of Dimensionality and Document Clustering [PDF]
    Georgios Zervas and Stefan Rueger
    In Proceedings of the IEEE Searching for Information: AI and IR Approaches, 1999