Decentralized Markov decision processes are frequently used to model cooperative multi-agent systems. In this paper, we identify a subclass of general DEC-MDPs that features regul...
We study the concept of bribery in the situation where voters are willing to change their votes as we ask them, but where their prices depend on the nature of the change we reques...
Many applications on blog search and mining often meet the challenge of handling huge volume of blog data, in which one single blog could contain hundreds or even thousands of ent...
Jinfeng Zhuang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Aixin Sun, Rong ...
Star splaying is a general-dimensional algorithm that takes as input a triangulation or an approximation of a convex hull, and produces the Delaunay triangulation, weighted Delaun...
The fused Lasso penalty enforces sparsity in both the coefficients and their successive differences, which is desirable for applications with features ordered in some meaningful w...