The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge

DARPA Urban Challenge

" DISCLAIMER: " The information contained in this paper does not represent the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) or the Department of Defense. DARPA does not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of the information in this paper. " Team IVS page 2 of 25 Executive Summary This paper highlights the technical status of the Inte...

TeamUCF - DARPA Urban Challenge

DARPA Urban Challenge – Highland Racing

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Public Law 106-398, Congress mandated in Section 220 that “It shall be a goal of the Armed Forces to achieve the fielding of unmanned, remotely controlled technology such that... by 2015, one-third of the operational ground combat vehicles are unmanned” [1]. In response to the congressional mandate, the Defense Advanced Research Proje...

DARPA Urban Challenge Technical Report

with input from many other team members 6/1/2007 "DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this paper does not represent the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) or the Department of Defense. DARPA does not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of the information in this paper." Austin Robot Technology's (ART's) entry in the DA...

Stweeler: A Framework for Twitter Bot Analysis

Most of these opportunistic pursuits are exploited through automated programs, known as bots. We propose a framework (Stweeler) to study bot impact and influence on Twitter from systems and social media perspectives. Research Questions 1). About bots: Why do bots exist in such quantity in a large OSN such as Twitter? 2). Bot usage and impact: How do different entities, e.g. news corps or commer...