In studying image quality and image preference it is necessary to collect psychophysical data. A variety of methods are used to arrive at interval scale values which indicate the ...
A central problem in learning in complex environmentsis balancing exploration of untested actions against exploitation of actions that are known to be good. The benefit of explora...
Rational decision making requires full knowledge of the utility function of the person affected by the decisions. However, in many cases, the task of acquiring such knowledge is n...
Software agents "living" and acting in a real world software environment, such as an operating system, a network, or a database system, can carry out many tasks for huma...
In spoken dialogue systems, it is important for a system to know how likely a speech recognition hypothesis is to be correct, so it can reprompt for fresh input, or, in cases wher...