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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
The Steiner Multigraph Problem: Wildlife Corridor Design for Multiple Species
The conservation of wildlife corridors between existing habitat preserves is important for combating the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation facing species of concern. We in...
Katherine J. Lai, Carla P. Gomes, Michael K. Schwa...
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
Integrating Community Question and Answer Archives
Question and answer pairs in Community Question Answering (CQA) services are organized into hierarchical structures or taxonomies to facilitate users to find the answers for thei...
Wei Wei, Gao Cong, Xiaoli Li, See-Kiong Ng, Guohui...
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
Optimal Envy-Free Cake Cutting
We consider the problem of fairly dividing a heterogeneous divisible good among agents with different preferences. Previous work has shown that envy-free allocations, i.e., where...
Yuga J. Cohler, John K. Lai, David C. Parkes, Arie...
AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
Incentive-Compatible Escrow Mechanisms
The most prominent way to establish trust between buyers and sellers on online auction sites are reputation mechanisms. Two drawbacks of this approach are the reliance on the sell...
Jens Witkowski, Sven Seuken, David C. Parkes
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
Cross-Language Latent Relational Search: Mapping Knowledge across Languages
Latent relational search (LRS) is a novel approach for mapping knowledge across two domains. Given a source domain knowledge concerning the Moon, “The Moon is a satellite of the...
Nguyen Tuan Duc, Danushka Bollegala, Mitsuru Ishiz...
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
Market Manipulation with Outside Incentives
Much evidence has shown that prediction markets, when used in isolation, can effectively aggregate dispersed information about uncertain future events and produce remarkably accur...
Yiling Chen, Xi Alice Gao, Rick Goldstein, Ian A. ...
AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
Dynamic Resource Allocation in Conservation Planning
Consider the problem of protecting endangered species by selecting patches of land to be used for conservation purposes. Typically, the availability of patches changes over time, ...
Daniel Golovin, Andreas Krause, Beth Gardner, Sara...
AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
Pushing the Power of Stochastic Greedy Ordering Schemes for Inference in Graphical Models
We study iterative randomized greedy algorithms for generating (elimination) orderings with small induced width and state space size - two parameters known to bound the complexity...
Kalev Kask, Andrew Gelfand, Lars Otten, Rina Decht...
AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
Global Seismic Monitoring: A Bayesian Approach
The automated processing of multiple seismic signals to detect and localize seismic events is a central tool in both geophysics and nuclear treaty verification. This paper report...
Nimar S. Arora, Stuart Russell, Paul Kidwell, Erik...
AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
User-Controllable Learning of Location Privacy Policies With Gaussian Mixture Models
With smart-phones becoming increasingly commonplace, there has been a subsequent surge in applications that continuously track the location of users. However, serious privacy conc...
Justin Cranshaw, Jonathan Mugan, Norman M. Sadeh