When we build a predictive model of a drug property we rigorously assess its predictive accuracy, but we are rarely able to address the most important question, “How useful will...
Simulation can be an effective way to evaluate alternative decisions in Sense-and-Respond systems prior to taking actions to resolve existing or anticipated business situations. I...
Paul Huang, Young M. Lee, Lianjun An, Markus Ettl,...
Interactive dynamic influence diagrams (I-DIDs) are graphical models for sequential decision making in uncertain settings shared by other agents. Algorithms for solving I-DIDs fac...
Telemarketers, direct marketing agencies, collection agencies and others whose primary means of customer contact is via the telephone invest considerable sums of money to make the...
Decision-tree algorithms are known to be unstable: small variations in the training set can result in different trees and different predictions for the same validation examples. B...