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COLT
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Preference Elicitation and Query Learning
Abstract. In this paper we initiate an exploration of relationships between “preference elicitation”, a learning-style problem that arises in combinatorial auctions, and the pr...
Avrim Blum, Jeffrey C. Jackson, Tuomas Sandholm, M...
DIGRA
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
The attack of the backstories (and why they won't win)
This essay adopts a formal model of play as semiosis [18] to explore the often dysfunctional role of backstories within computer game design and play. Within this model, backstori...
David Myers
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FSTTCS
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Moderately Hard Functions: From Complexity to Spam Fighting
A key idea in cryptography is using hard functions in order to obtain secure schemes. The theory of hard functions (e.g. one-way functions) has been a great success story, and the ...
Moni Naor
SCALESPACE
2001
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Bayesian Object Detection through Level Curves Selection
Bayesian statistical theory is a convenient way of taking a priori information into consideration when inference is made from images. In Bayesian image detection, the a priori dist...
Charles Kervrann
CSEE
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Making Every Student a Winner: The WinWin Approach in Software Engineering Education
This paper shows how Theory-W and the WinWin requirements negotiation approach are used in software engineering education at several universities in the US, Europe, and Asia. We b...
Paul Grünbacher, Norbert Seyff, Robert O. Bri...