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AAAI
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Security Games for Controlling Contagion
Many strategic actions carry a ‘contagious’ component beyond the immediate locale of the effort itself. Viral marketing and peacekeeping operations have both been observed to ...
Jason Tsai, Thanh H. Nguyen, Milind Tambe
AAAI
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Sparse Probabilistic Relational Projection
Probabilistic relational PCA (PRPCA) can learn a projection matrix to perform dimensionality reduction for relational data. However, the results learned by PRPCA lack interpretabi...
Wu-Jun Li, Dit-Yan Yeung
AAAI
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Multinomial Relation Prediction in Social Data: A Dimension Reduction Approach
The recent popularization of social web services has made them one of the primary uses of the World Wide Web. An important concept in social web services is social actions such as...
Nozomi Nori, Danushka Bollegala, Hisashi Kashima
AAAI
2012
11 years 6 months ago
A Spin-Glass Model for Semi-Supervised Community Detection
Current modularity-based community detection methods show decreased performance as relational networks become increasingly noisy. These methods also yield a large number of divers...
Eric Eaton, Rachael Mansbach
AAAI
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Exact Lifted Inference with Distinct Soft Evidence on Every Object
The presence of non-symmetric evidence has been a barrier for the application of lifted inference since the evidence destroys the symmetry of the first-order probabilistic model....
Hung B. Bui, Tuyen N. Huynh, Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
AAAI
2012
11 years 6 months ago
POMDPs Make Better Hackers: Accounting for Uncertainty in Penetration Testing
Penetration Testing is a methodology for assessing network security, by generating and executing possible hacking attacks. Doing so automatically allows for regular and systematic...
Carlos Sarraute, Olivier Buffet, Jörg Hoffman...
AAAI
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Generalized Monte-Carlo Tree Search Extensions for General Game Playing
General Game Playing (GGP) agents must be capable of playing a wide variety of games skillfully. Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has proven an effective reasoning mechanism for thi...
Hilmar Finnsson
AAAI
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Quality Expectation-Variance Tradeoffs in Crowdsourcing Contests
We examine designs for crowdsourcing contests, where participants compete for rewards given to superior solutions of a task. We theoretically analyze tradeoffs between the expecta...
Xi Alice Gao, Yoram Bachrach, Peter Key, Thore Gra...
AAAI
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Threats and Trade-Offs in Resource Critical Crowdsourcing Tasks Over Networks
In recent times, crowdsourcing over social networks has emerged as an active tool for complex task execution. In this paper, we address the problem faced by a planner to incentivi...
Swaprava Nath, Pankaj Dayama, Dinesh Garg, Y. Nara...
AAAI
2012
11 years 6 months ago
An Object-Based Bayesian Framework for Top-Down Visual Attention
We introduce a new task-independent framework to model top-down overt visual attention based on graphical models for probabilistic inference and reasoning. We describe a Dynamic B...
Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, Laurent Itti