This work-in-progress report presents the groundwork for the design of a user-adaptive web-based e-learning system. A survey and two randomized controlled experiments were carried...
Abstract. Social navigation in a community of practice (CoP) is an approach of locating information through increased social awareness. Designing support for social navigation requ...
The authors have some experience in building virtual worlds for education purposes, in archaeology and for language learning. However, many mainstream world-building applications ...
Coarse-to-fine classification is an efficient way of organizing object recognition in order to accommodate a large number of possible hypotheses and to systematically exploit shar...
Many applications require optimizing an unknown, noisy function that is expensive to evaluate. We formalize this task as a multiarmed bandit problem, where the payoff function is ...
Niranjan Srinivas, Andreas Krause, Sham Kakade, Ma...