Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Abstract Research in information security, risk management and investment has grown in importance over the last few years. However, without reliable estimates on attack probabiliti...
Security decision-making is hard for both humans and machines. This is because security decisions are context-dependent, require highly dynamic, specialized knowledge, and require...
Option contracts are a type of financial derivative that allow investors to hedge risk and speculate on the variation of an asset’s future market price. In short, an option has...
Jacob Abernethy, Rafael M. Frongillo, Andre Wibiso...
We propose a sequential randomized algorithm, which at each step concentrates on functions having both low risk and low variance with respect to the previous step prediction functi...