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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Functional matrix factorizations for cold-start recommendation
A key challenge in recommender system research is how to effectively profile new users, a problem generally known as cold-start recommendation. Recently the idea of progressivel...
Ke Zhou, Shuang-Hong Yang, Hongyuan Zha
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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12 years 11 months ago
Schedule optimization for data processing flows on the cloud
Scheduling data processing workflows (dataflows) on the cloud is a very complex and challenging task. It is essentially an optimization problem, very similar to query optimizati...
Herald Kllapi, Eva Sitaridi, Manolis M. Tsangaris,...
AAAI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Recommendation Sets and Choice Queries: There Is No Exploration/Exploitation Tradeoff!
Utility elicitation is an important component of many applications, such as decision support systems and recommender systems. Such systems query users about their preferences and ...
Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Learning action models for multi-agent planning
In multi-agent planning environments, action models for each agent must be given as input. However, creating such action models by hand is difficult and time-consuming, because i...
Hankz Hankui Zhuo, Hector Muñoz-Avila, Qian...
CEC
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Stochastic Natural Gradient Descent by estimation of empirical covariances
—Stochastic relaxation aims at finding the minimum of a fitness function by identifying a proper sequence of distributions, in a given model, that minimize the expected value o...
Luigi Malagò, Matteo Matteucci, Giovanni Pi...