Recently, mean-variance analysis has been proposed as a novel paradigm to model document ranking in Information Retrieval. The main merit of this approach is that it diversifies t...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
Information-based agency is founded on two observations: everything in an agent’s world model is uncertain, and everything that an agent communicates gives away valuable informa...
In this paper, we present a new protocol to address multilateral multi-issue negotiation in a cooperative context. We consider complex dependencies between multiple issues by mode...
Miniar Hemaissia, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Chri...
Abstract. Automated online search is a powerful technique for performance diagnosis. Such a search can change the types of experiments it performs while the program is running, mak...
The efficacy of expert systems often depends on the accuracy and completeness of the problem specification negotiated with the user. Therefore, efficient user interfaces are needed...