An important drawback to the popular Belief, Desire, and Intentions (BDI) paradigm is that such systems include no element of learning from experience. We describe a novel BDI exe...
The area under the ROC curve (AUC) has been advocated as an evaluation criterion for the bipartite ranking problem. We study large deviation properties of the AUC; in particular, ...
We present a theoretical analysis of supervised ranking, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic consistency of algorithms based on minimizing a surrogate...
We develop an abstract model of information acquisition from redundant data. We assume a random sampling process from data which contain information with bias and are interested in...
We study decision making in environments where the reward is only partially observed, but can be modeled as a function of an action and an observed context. This setting, known as...