ECAI
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
In classical revealed preference analysis we are given a sequence of linear prices (i.e., additive over goods) and an agent's demand at each of the prices. The problem is to d...
UAI
1998
13 years 5 months ago
1998
The majority of real-world probabilistic systems are used by more than one user, thus a utility model must be elicited separately for each newuser. Utility elicitation is long and...
AAAI
2000
13 years 5 months ago
2000
Rational decision making requires full knowledge of the utility function of the person affected by the decisions. However, in many cases, the task of acquiring such knowledge is n...
UAI
2001
13 years 5 months ago
2001
We propose a directed graphical representation of utility functions, called UCP-networks, that combines aspects of two existing preference models: generalized additive models and ...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
Intelligent agents often need to assess user utility functions in order to make decisions on their behalf, or predict their behavior. When uncertainty exists over the precise natu...
DAGSTUHL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Subgroup discovery aims at finding interesting subsets of a classified example set that deviates from the overall distribution. The search is guided by a so-called utility function...
AAAI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
We study how to find plans that maximize the expected total utility for a given MDP, a planning objective that is important for decision making in high-stakes domains. The optimal...
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
The automation of forest cleaning presupposes principles for choosing those trees that ought to be taken away and those that shall be left standing. In this paper, which is a repor...
AAAI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
In cooperative multiagent systems an alternative that maximizes the social welfare--the sum of utilities--can only be selected if each agent reports its full utility function. Thi...
WOSP
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2010
ACM
The architecture of a software system has a significant impact on its quality of service (QoS) as measured by several performance metrics such as execution time, availability, th...