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AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Incentive-Compatible Escrow Mechanisms
The most prominent way to establish trust between buyers and sellers on online auction sites are reputation mechanisms. Two drawbacks of this approach are the reliance on the sell...
Jens Witkowski, Sven Seuken, David C. Parkes
AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Cross-Language Latent Relational Search: Mapping Knowledge across Languages
Latent relational search (LRS) is a novel approach for mapping knowledge across two domains. Given a source domain knowledge concerning the Moon, “The Moon is a satellite of the...
Nguyen Tuan Duc, Danushka Bollegala, Mitsuru Ishiz...
AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Market Manipulation with Outside Incentives
Much evidence has shown that prediction markets, when used in isolation, can effectively aggregate dispersed information about uncertain future events and produce remarkably accur...
Yiling Chen, Xi Alice Gao, Rick Goldstein, Ian A. ...
AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Dynamic Resource Allocation in Conservation Planning
Consider the problem of protecting endangered species by selecting patches of land to be used for conservation purposes. Typically, the availability of patches changes over time, ...
Daniel Golovin, Andreas Krause, Beth Gardner, Sara...
AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Pushing the Power of Stochastic Greedy Ordering Schemes for Inference in Graphical Models
We study iterative randomized greedy algorithms for generating (elimination) orderings with small induced width and state space size - two parameters known to bound the complexity...
Kalev Kask, Andrew Gelfand, Lars Otten, Rina Decht...
AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Global Seismic Monitoring: A Bayesian Approach
The automated processing of multiple seismic signals to detect and localize seismic events is a central tool in both geophysics and nuclear treaty verification. This paper report...
Nimar S. Arora, Stuart Russell, Paul Kidwell, Erik...
AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
User-Controllable Learning of Location Privacy Policies With Gaussian Mixture Models
With smart-phones becoming increasingly commonplace, there has been a subsequent surge in applications that continuously track the location of users. However, serious privacy conc...
Justin Cranshaw, Jonathan Mugan, Norman M. Sadeh
AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Using Semantic Cues to Learn Syntax
We present a method for dependency grammar induction that utilizes sparse annotations of semantic relations. This induction set-up is attractive because such annotations provide u...
Tahira Naseem, Regina Barzilay
AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Linear Dynamic Programs for Resource Management
Sustainable resource management in many domains presents large continuous stochastic optimization problems, which can often be modeled as Markov decision processes (MDPs). To solv...
Marek Petrik, Shlomo Zilberstein
AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
End-User Feature Labeling via Locally Weighted Logistic Regression
Applications that adapt to a particular end user often make inaccurate predictions during the early stages when training data is limited. Although an end user can improve the lear...
Weng-Keen Wong, Ian Oberst, Shubhomoy Das, Travis ...