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IR
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Gradient descent optimization of smoothed information retrieval metrics
Abstract Most ranking algorithms are based on the optimization of some loss functions, such as the pairwise loss. However, these loss functions are often different from the criter...
Olivier Chapelle, Mingrui Wu
MANSCI
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Contracting for Infrequent Restoration and Recovery of Mission-Critical Systems
Firms that rely on functioning mission-critical equipment for their businesses cannot a¤ord signi…cant operational downtime due to system disruptions. To minimize the impact of...
Sang-Hyun Kim, Morris A. Cohen, Serguei Netessine,...
IFSA
2007
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Optimization to Manage Supply Chain Disruptions Using the NSGA-II
Disruption on a supply chain provokes lost that should be minimized looking for alternative suppliers. This solution involves a strategy to manage the impact of the disruption and ...
Víctor Serrano, Matías Alvarado, Car...
AMET
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Bid Evaluation and Selection in the MAGNET Automated Contracting System
We present an approach to the bid-evaluation problem in a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, called MAGNET. The MAGNET market infrastructure provides support for a variet...
Erik S. Steinmetz, John Collins, Scott Jamison, Ra...
AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Strategic Advice Provision in Repeated Human-Agent Interactions
This paper addresses the problem of automated advice provision in settings that involve repeated interactions between people and computer agents. This problem arises in many real ...
Amos Azaria, Zinovi Rabinovich, Sarit Kraus, Claud...