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FOCS
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Partial-Information Based Stochastic Control with Markovian Rewards
We consider a variant of the classic multi-armed bandit problem (MAB), which we call FEEDBACK MAB, where the reward obtained by playing each of n independent arms varies according...
Sudipto Guha, Kamesh Munagala
ACMICEC
2006
ACM
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16 years 1 months ago
An ontology of trust: formal semantics and transitivity
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
Jingwei Huang, Mark S. Fox
ICAIL
2003
ACM
16 years 8 days ago
Positive and Negative Expectations and the Deontic Nature of Social Conventions
The general goal of the paper is to show the normative/deontic nature of conventions. Conventions are traditionally defined as regularity of behavior based on expectations evolved...
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Luca Tummolini
CVPR
2010
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Ray Markov Random Fields for Image-Based 3D Modeling: Model and Efficient Inference
In this paper, we present an approach to multi-view image-based 3D reconstruction by statistically inversing the ray-tracing based image generation process. The proposed algorithm...
Shubao Liu, David Cooper
ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Information elicitation for decision making
Proper scoring rules, particularly when used as the basis for a prediction market, are powerful tools for eliciting and aggregating beliefs about events such as the likely outcome...
Yiling Chen, Ian A. Kash