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SIROCCO
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Word of Mouth: Rumor Dissemination in Social Networks
In this paper we examine the diffusion of competing rumors in social networks. Two players select a disjoint subset of nodes as initiators of the rumor propagation, seeking to maxi...
Jan Kostka, Yvonne Anne Oswald, Roger Wattenhofer
UAI
2001
15 years 8 months ago
UCP-Networks: A Directed Graphical Representation of Conditional Utilities
We propose a directed graphical representation of utility functions, called UCP-networks, that combines aspects of two existing preference models: generalized additive models and ...
Craig Boutilier, Fahiem Bacchus, Ronen I. Brafman
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CIIA
2009
15 years 7 months ago
Dynamic Scheduling in Petroleum Process using Reinforcement Learning
Petroleum industry production systems are highly automatized. In this industry, all functions (e.g., planning, scheduling and maintenance) are automated and in order to remain comp...
Nassima Aissani, Bouziane Beldjilali
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CSDA
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Time-adaptive quantile regression
An algorithm for time-adaptive quantile regression is presented. The algorithm is based on the simplex algorithm, and the linear optimization formulation of the quantile regressio...
Jan Kloppenborg Møller, Henrik Aalborg Niel...
EOR
2007
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Solving the semi-desirable facility location problem using bi-objective particle swarm
In this paper, a new model for the semi-obnoxious facility location problem is introduced. The new model is composed of a weighted minisum function to represent the transportation...
Haluk Yapicioglu, Alice E. Smith, Gerry V. Dozier