Many applications require optimizing an unknown, noisy function that is expensive to evaluate. We formalize this task as a multiarmed bandit problem, where the payoff function is ...
Niranjan Srinivas, Andreas Krause, Sham Kakade, Ma...
Call-by-value languages commonly restrict recursive definitions by only allowing functions and syntactically explicit values in the right-hand sides. As a consequence, some very a...
The task of selecting information and rendering it appropriately appears in multiple contexts in summarization. In this paper we present a model that simultaneously optimizes sele...
Prepaid customers in mobile telecommunications are not bound by a contract and can therefore change operators (`churn') at their convenience and without notification. This mak...
Dejan Radosavljevik, Peter van der Putten, Kim Kyl...
—Delay Tolerant Networks are wireless networks where disconnections may occur frequently due to propagation phenomena, node mobility, and power outages. Propagation delays may al...
Amir Krifa, Chadi Barakat, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulo...