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Week Ending 11.11.18

RESEARCH WATCH: 11.11.18

Over the past week, 25 new papers were published in "Computer Science".

Over the past week, 30 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence".

Over the past week, 22 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Computers and Society".

  • The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at University of Oxford: "Third Party Tracking in the Mobile Ecosystem" by Reuben Binns et al (Apr 2018), which was referenced 108 times, including in the article Children’s apps contain an average of 7 third-party trackers, study finds in Sophos Anti Virus. The paper author, Max Van Kleek (University of Oxford), was quoted saying "most people who use life360 probably aren't aware that these third parties are embedded in the app and collecting information about them". The paper got social media traction with 124 shares. The investigators present an empirical study of the prevalence of third - party trackers on 959,000 apps from the US and UK Google Play stores.


Over the past week, 18 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction".

Over the past week, 13 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Multiagent Systems".

· Over the past month, 44 new articles were published — 27% higher than the average monthly rate. The new articles cover 12 of 15 topics in this space of 496 articles.

· Policies & Agent Reinforcement Learning was the topic with the largest increase in research activity this month, with about three times its average rate of 2.46 papers/month. Activity in the topic Swarm & Collective remained strong comprising 11% of new articles being published. Meanwhile, there was a significant drop off in research on Agent-based & Energywhich was averaging 4.85 papers/month but only saw 2 new papers over the past month.

· Published work includes "The Dynamics of Norm Change in the Cultural Evolution of Language" by Roberta Amato et al published in the prestigious journal PNAS

Over the past week, 27 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing".

Over the past week, 34 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Robotics".


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