From: Bandit strategies in social search: the case of the DARPA red balloon challenge
Variable | Description |
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asubmission | Submission count: how many submissions the cluster had |
aballoon | Balloon count: how many reported locations the cluster had |
ateam | Team count: how many teams submitted locations belonging to the cluster |
aappear | Appearance time: the earliest appearance time of the cluster |
adisappear | Disappear time: the latest appearance time of the cluster |
alasting | Lasting time: adisappear - aappear |
ahalf-submission | Half-life submissions: time elapsed to reach half of all submissions for the cluster. It’s the different to the appearance time aappear: if the cluster only has 1 submission, the value is 0 |
ahalf-balloon | Half-life balloons: time elapsed to reach half balloons |
ahalf-team | Half-life teams: time it took for the cluster to be detected by half of the teams that report it over the course of the challenge |