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ICWSM
2010
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StepGreen.org: Increasing Energy Saving Behaviors via Social Networks
Decades of research have explored factors that can influence green behavior. However, much less is known about the ways in which technology in general, and social technologies in ...
Jennifer Mankoff, Susan R. Fussell, Tawanna Dillah...
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IFIP12
2008
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Making Others Believe What They Want
We study the interplay between argumentation and belief revision within the MAS framework. When an agent uses an argument to persuade another one, he must consider not only the pro...
Guido Boella, Célia da Costa Pereira, Andre...
NIPS
2008
15 years 6 months ago
Mortal Multi-Armed Bandits
We formulate and study a new variant of the k-armed bandit problem, motivated by e-commerce applications. In our model, arms have (stochastic) lifetime after which they expire. In...
Deepayan Chakrabarti, Ravi Kumar, Filip Radlinski,...
NIPS
2007
15 years 6 months ago
Multiple-Instance Active Learning
We present a framework for active learning in the multiple-instance (MI) setting. In an MI learning problem, instances are naturally organized into bags and it is the bags, instea...
Burr Settles, Mark Craven, Soumya Ray
AAAI
2006
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Analysis of Privacy Loss in Distributed Constraint Optimization
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is rapidly emerging as a prominent technique for multiagent coordination. However, despite agent privacy being a key motivation for appl...
Rachel Greenstadt, Jonathan P. Pearce, Milind Tamb...