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IJCAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Incremental Utility Elicitation with the Minimax Regret Decision Criterion
Utility elicitation is a critical function of any automated decision aid, allowing decisions to be tailored to the preferences of a specific user. However, the size and complexit...
Tianhan Wang, Craig Boutilier
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Nonlinear Quadratic Pricing for Concavifiable Utilities in Network Rate Control
This paper deals with a category of concavifiable functions that can be used to model inelastic traffic in the network. Such class of functions can be concavified within an interva...
Quanyan Zhu, Raouf Boutaba
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Suboptimal Network Utility Maximization Approach for Scalable Multimedia Applications
—Wired and wireless data networks have witnessed an explosive growth of inelastic traffics such as real-time or media streaming applications. Recently, applications relying on l...
Mohammad Sadegh Talebi, Ahmad Khonsari, Mohammad H...
ANOR
2007
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Portfolio selection with probabilistic utility
We present a novel portfolio selection technique, which replaces the traditional maximization of the utility function with a probabilistic approach inspired by statistical physics....
Robert Marschinski, Pietro Rossi, Massimo Tavoni, ...
UAI
2001
13 years 9 months ago
UCP-Networks: A Directed Graphical Representation of Conditional Utilities
We propose a directed graphical representation of utility functions, called UCP-networks, that combines aspects of two existing preference models: generalized additive models and ...
Craig Boutilier, Fahiem Bacchus, Ronen I. Brafman