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WINE
2009
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Externalities in Keyword Auctions: An Empirical and Theoretical Assessment
It is widely believed that the value of acquiring a slot in a sponsored search list (that comes along with the organic links in a search engine’s result page) highly depends on ...
Renato Gomes, Nicole Immorlica, Evangelos Markakis
JAIR
2000
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13 years 8 months ago
Value-Function Approximations for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide an elegant mathematical framework for modeling complex decision and planning problems in stochastic domains in whic...
Milos Hauskrecht
JAIR
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Creating Relational Data from Unstructured and Ungrammatical Data Sources
In order for agents to act on behalf of users, they will have to retrieve and integrate vast amounts of textual data on the World Wide Web. However, much of the useful data on the...
Matthew Michelson, Craig A. Knoblock
AMEC
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Choosing Samples to Compute Heuristic-Strategy Nash Equilibrium
Auctions define games of incomplete information for which it is often too hard to compute the exact Bayesian-Nash equilibrium. Instead, the infinite strategy space is often popu...
William E. Walsh, David C. Parkes, Rajarshi Das
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Truthful Two-Stage Mechanism for Eliciting Probabilistic Estimates with Unknown Costs
This paper reports on the design of a novel two-stage mechanism, based on strictly proper scoring rules, that motivates selfish rational agents to make a costly probabilistic estim...
Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Alex Rogers, Enrico H...