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EPIA
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Two Puzzles Concerning Measures of Uncertainty and the Positive Boolean Connectives
Abstract. The two puzzles are the Lottery Paradox and the Amalgamation Paradox, which both point out difficulties for aggregating uncertain information. A generalization of the lot...
Gregory R. Wheeler
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Empowerment: a universal agent-centric measure of control
Abstract- The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from...
Alexander S. Klyubin, Daniel Polani, Chrystopher L...
FLAIRS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Measuring Hint Level in Open Cloze Questions
Providing the first few letters of a missing word in a sentence gives information about this word. This paper attempts to measure the information transmitted in that case. In orde...
Juan Pino, Maxine Eskenazi
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Probabilistic cellular automata, invariant measures, and perfect sampling
In a probabilistic cellular automaton (PCA), the cells are updated synchronously and independently, according to a distribution depending on a finite neighborhood. A PCA can be vi...
Ana Busic, Jean Mairesse, Irene Marcovici
ICIP
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
A perceptual metric for blind measurement of blocking artifacts with applications in transform-block-based image and video codin
In this paper, we analyze the formation of blocking artifacts as a result of quantization of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients. These artifacts are known to be the ...
Koohyar Minoo, Truong Q. Nguyen