This paper presents and evaluates a decision making framework that enables autonomous agents to dynamically select the mechanism they employ in order to coordinate their inter-rela...
Content-based image retrieval in astronomy needs methods that can deal with an image content made of noisy and diffuse structures. This motivates investigations on how information ...
Assessors frequently disagree on the topical relevance of documents. How much of this disagreement is due to ambiguity in assessment instructions? We have two assessors assess TRE...
We examine the problem of evaluating a policy in the contextual bandit setting using only observations collected during the execution of another policy. We show that policy evalua...
John Langford, Alexander L. Strehl, Jennifer Wortm...
The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet has dramatically changed the way that consumers shop for goods. Consumergenerated product reviews have become a valuable source of inf...
Nikolay Archak, Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeir...