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2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Hypertext interaction revisited
Much of hypertext narrative relies on links to shape a reader’s interaction with the text. But links may be too limited to express ambiguity, imprecision, and entropy, or to adm...
Gene Golovchinsky, Catherine C. Marshall
ICTAI
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Preventing Unwanted Social Inferences with Classification Tree Analysis
A serious threat to user privacy in new mobile and web2.0 applications stems from ‘social inferences’. These unwanted inferences are related to the users’ identity, current ...
Sara Motahari, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Quentin Jones
ECSQARU
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Connecting Lexicographic with Maximum Entropy Entailment
Abstract. This paper reviews and relates two default reasoning mechanisms, lexicographic (lex) and maximum entropy (me) entailment. Meentailment requires that defaults be assigned ...
Rachel A. Bourne, Simon Parsons
NIPS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
TrueSkill Through Time: Revisiting the History of Chess
We extend the Bayesian skill rating system TrueSkill to infer entire time series of skills of players by smoothing through time instead of filtering. The skill of each participat...
Pierre Dangauthier, Ralf Herbrich, Tom Minka, Thor...
EVOW
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Gaussian Adaptation Revisited - An Entropic View on Covariance Matrix Adaptation
Abstract. We revisit Gaussian Adaptation (GaA), a black-box optimizer for discrete and continuous problems that has been developed in the late 1960’s. This largely neglected sear...
Christian L. Müller, Ivo F. Sbalzarini