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AIME
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Variable Selection for Optimal Decision Making
This paper discusses variable selection for medical decision making; in particular decisions regarding when to provide treatment and which treatment to provide. Current variable se...
Lacey Gunter, Ji Zhu, Susan Murphy
KDD
2002
ACM
147views Data Mining» more  KDD 2002»
15 years 10 months ago
Sequential cost-sensitive decision making with reinforcement learning
Recently, there has been increasing interest in the issues of cost-sensitive learning and decision making in a variety of applications of data mining. A number of approaches have ...
Edwin P. D. Pednault, Naoki Abe, Bianca Zadrozny
NECO
2008
108views more  NECO 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Optimization of Decision Making in Multilayer Networks: The Role of Locus Coeruleus
Previous theoretical work has shown that a single layer neural network can implement the optimal decision process for simple, two alternative forced choice (2AFC) tasks. However, ...
Eric Shea-Brown, Mark S. Gilzenrat, Jonathan D. Co...
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WAOA
2007
Springer
106views Algorithms» more  WAOA 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
Full and Local Information in Distributed Decision Making
We consider the following distributed optimization problem: three agents i = 1, 2, 3 are each presented with a load drawn independently from the same known prior distribution. Then...
Panagiota N. Panagopoulou, Paul G. Spirakis
ICFP
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Distance makes the types grow stronger: a calculus for differential privacy
We want assurances that sensitive information will not be disclosed when aggregate data derived from a database is published. Differential privacy offers a strong statistical guar...
Jason Reed, Benjamin C. Pierce