In a principal-agent problem, a principal seeks to motivate an agent to take a certain action beneficial to the principal, while spending as little as possible on the reward. This...
This paper presents an approach to develop bidding agents that participate in multiple alternative auctions, with the goal of obtaining an item at the lowest price. The approach c...
In many practical applications, one is interested in generating a ranked list of items using information mined from continuous streams of data. For example, in the context of comp...
In this paper, we study the problem of discovering interesting patterns through user's interactive feedback. We assume a set of candidate patterns (i.e., frequent patterns) h...
—In decentralized settings with partial observability, agents can often benefit from communicating, but communication resources may be limited and costly. Current approaches ten...