In designing Markov Decision Processes (MDP), one must define the world, its dynamics, a set of actions, and a reward function. MDPs are often applied in situations where there i...
David L. Roberts, Sooraj Bhat, Kenneth St. Clair, ...
Targeted optimization of program segments can provide an additional program speedup over the highest default optimization level, such as -O3 in GCC. The key challenge is how to au...
Haiping Wu, Eunjung Park, Mihailo Kaplarevic, Ying...
Recommender systems are a powerful tool for promoting sales in electronic commerce. An effective shopping recommender system can help boost the retailer’s sales by reminding cus...
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A simple advertising strategy that can be used to help increase sales of a product is to mail out special o ers to selected potential customers. Because there is a cost associated...
—Advertising has become an integral and inseparable part of the World Wide Web. However, neither public auditing nor monitoring mechanisms still exist in this emerging area. In t...
Yong Wang, Daniel Burgener, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic,...