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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Bots"”.
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DEliBots : Deliberation Enhancing Bots
… introduce the concept of Deliberation Enhancing Bots - DEliBots. The primary objective of a DEliBot is to improve the group's decision-making by providing a framework for good deliberation practices. To achieve this, we leverage conversational probing -- asking questions that stimulate further …
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3D printed muscle-powered bio-bots
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-12-01
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Detecting Bots using Stream-based System with Data Synthesis
… a data synthesis method to explore detecting bots with limited data to address this problem. We collected the network traffic from 3 online services in three different months within a year (23 million network requests). We develop a novel stream-based feature encoding scheme to support our …
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Artificial Conversations for Chatter Bots Using Knowledge Representation, Learning, and Pragmatics
Chatter bots are software programs that engage in artificial conversations through a text-based input medium. Many businesses have automated their online customer service support by deploying chatter bots. These customer service chatter bots interact with customers, answer their queries, and …
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Machine Learning Based Detection and Evasion Techniques for Advanced Web Bots.
Web bots are programs that can be used to browse the web and perform different types of automated actions, both benign and malicious. Such web bots vary in sophistication based on their purpose, ranging from simple automated scripts to advanced web bots that have a browser fingerprint and exhibit a …
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Clustering Web Users by Mouse Movement to Detect Bots and Botnet Attacks
… and accurately detect the presence of web bots has shown to be a challenging problem. As the sophistication of modern web bots increases, specifically their ability to more closely mimic the behavior of humans, web bot detection schemes are more quickly becoming obsolete by failing to …
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The art of bots: A practice-based study of the multiplicity, entanglements and figuration of sociocomputational assemblages
… analyses an emerging art practice known as artbots. Artbots are internet-based software applications that are imbued with character and configured to engage and entertain online audiences. This form of practice, and the community of practice leading it, was found to be underrepresented and …
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The automatization of social media communication - Exploring the development of bot codes on GitHub and the use of open-source bots on Twitter
The production and deployment of social media bots signal the emergence of new political economies that redistribute agency around new technological actors. This has implications for marketing, political action and even private lives. Yet, we have very little systematic knowledge about how bots are …
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Desinformación en salud en redes sociales: prevalencia, bots sociales, y cambio en el comportamiento durante la pandemia del covid-19
… Nuestro objetivo es estudiar el papel de los bots en las redes sociales durante el brote de COVID-19. El objetivo del tercer artículo es medir el impacto de las campañas online llevadas a cabo en 2019 y 2020 por la National Eating Disorders Association para combatir los desórdenes alimenticios.
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Identifying and assessing coordinated influence campaigns on social networks
… opinions using artificial accounts, or bots. It is suspected that the 2016 U.S. presidential election was the victim of such social network interference, potentially by foreign actors. Foreign influence bots are also suspected of having attacked European elections. The bots main action …
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Using Visual Analytics to Discover Bot Traffic
… for businesses and organisations, such as spam bots, scraper bots, distributed denial of service bots and adaptive bots that aim to exploit the vulnerabilities of a website. Discriminating bot traffic against legitimate flash crowds remains an open challenge to date.In order to address the above …
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Karma Chameleons: Data Collection Techniques and Account Characterization for Bot Detection on Reddit
Malicious bots on social media platforms present an ever-evolving threat to the integrity of online communication. As platforms like Twitter/X, Meta, and Reddit continue to grow in popularity, so do opportunities for malicious actors to create bot accounts. These bots, which are often designed to …
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Analyzing information diffusion in social media networks
… interactions between human users and social bots. This study investigates information diffusion patterns on X (formerly Twitter) by analyzing retweet (repost) network topologies. The results reveal distinct behavioral patterns for humans and bots when spreading true and false information, …
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Understanding the behaviour and influence of automated social agents
… presence of automated social agents, or social bots. Social bots are the new computing viral, that are surreptitious and clever. What facilitates the creation of social agents is the massive human user-base and business-supportive operating model of social networks. These automated agents are …
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Implementación de un SMA de negociación basado en subastas electrónicas
… en la modalidad de agentes de subasta (auction bots). Lo que se pretende es llevar a cabo todo el proceso de negociación de las subastas sin intervención humana, por medio de sus agentes representantes.
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An Examination of Price Dispersion in an Online Retail Marketplace
… on the web. Also, a literature review of shop-bots is presented as they are similar to online marketplaces and form the basis of the three studies. Chapter 2 is the first study, and it establishes the existence of price dispersion in online marketplaces and offers a comparison with price …
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Detecting advanced botnets in enterprise networks
… HE classifier restores BH's ability to detect bots, even when they use encryption. Entropy calculation at line speed is expensive, especially when the flows are very long. To deal with this issue, we introduce two algorithms to classify flows as HE by looking at only part of a flow. In …
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E-AI an emotion architecture for agents in games & virtual worlds
… of interactive characters in the form of chat bots and non-player characters. With these reviews completed, a synthesis of the research resulted in the defining of an emotion architecture for use with pre-existing agent behaviour systems, and a range of evaluation techniques applicable to …
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AI Integration in Higher Education: A Content Analysis on AI Sophistication and Student Outcomes/Skill Development as Reported in Empirical Studies (2019-2024)
… various AI applications, including chatbots, ChatGPT, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), virtual reality, augmented reality, language bots, writing bots, and recommender and search engines. The significant distribution of effect sizes across the four categories (small, medium, large, …
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The performance of comedy by artificial intelligence agents
… The creative project employs a pair of chat-bots, natural language processing artificial intelligence agents, to act as comedian and straight-man in a comedy performance based on a topic supplied by the user in a web-based interface. This is an interdisciplinary project that draws on the …
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