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FLAIRS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Planning for Welfare to Work
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...
Liangrong Yi, Raphael A. Finkel, Judy Goldsmith
DGO
2003
140views Education» more  DGO 2003»
13 years 6 months ago
Social Welfare Program Administration and Evaluation and Policy Analysis Using Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) on Admi
New technology in knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) make it possible to extract valuable information from operational data. Private businesses already use the technology f...
Hye-Chung (Monica) Kum, Dean Duncan, Kimberly Flai...
ICPP
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Social Welfare Based Routing in Ad hoc Networks
— Due to resource scarcity, a paramount concern in ad hoc networks is to utilize the limited resources efficiently. The self-organized nature of ad hoc networks makes the social...
Mingming Lu, Jie Wu
ESAW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Welfare Engineering in Practice: On the Variety of Multiagent Resource Allocation Problems
Abstract. Many problems studied in the multiagent systems community can be considered instances of an abstract multiagent resource allocation problem. In this problem, which is now...
Yann Chevaleyre, Ulrich Endriss, Sylvia Estivie, N...
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
155views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Tight information-theoretic lower bounds for welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions
We provide tight information-theoretic lower bounds for the welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In this problem, the goal is to partition m items among k bidde...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Michael Schapira, Jan Vondr&aac...