Abstract. The vast majority of the interactions in typical online communities nowadays is between complete strangers. In such settings reputation reporting and trust management mod...
Computers offer valuable assistance to people with physical disabilities. However designing human-computer interfaces for these users is complicated. The range of abilities is mor...
We are interested in building decision-support software for social welfare case managers. Our model in the form of a factored Markov decision process is so complex that a standard...
Compounding processes, also known as perpetuities, play an important role in many applications; in particular, in time series analysis and mathematical finance. Apart from some s...
We consider the computational complexity of evaluating nested counterfactuals over a propositional knowledge base. Counterfactual implication models a statement "if p, then q...