Dynamic changes in complex, real-time environments, such as modern video games, can violate an agent's expectations. We describe a system that responds competently to such vi...
In this paper, we study a sequential decision making problem. The objective is to maximize the average reward accumulated over time subject to temporal cost constraints. The novel...
We propose an expressive auction design that allows advertisers to specify the kinds of demographics and websites they wish to target within an advertising network. The design all...
In this paper, we consider equity-linked life insurance contracts that give their holder the possibility to surrender their policy before maturity. Such contracts can be valued us...
Developing dispatching rules for manufacturing systems is a tedious process, which is time- and cost-consuming. Since there is no good general rule for different scenarios and ob...