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SIAMCO
2008
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A Direct Solution Method for Stochastic Impulse Control Problems of One-dimensional Diffusions
We consider stochastic impulse control problems where the process is driven by one-dimensional diffusions. Impulse control problems are widely applied to financial engineering and...
Masahiko Egami
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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Incentives for expressing opinions in online polls
Prediction markets efficiently extract and aggregate the private information held by individuals about events and facts that can be publicly verified. However, facts such as the e...
Radu Jurca, Boi Faltings
SIGIR
2008
ACM
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Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
AI
2000
Springer
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Stochastic dynamic programming with factored representations
Markov decisionprocesses(MDPs) haveproven to be popular models for decision-theoretic planning, but standard dynamic programming algorithms for solving MDPs rely on explicit, stat...
Craig Boutilier, Richard Dearden, Moisés Go...
JAIR
2000
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An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Dialogue Strategy Selection in a Spoken Dialogue System for Email
This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method...
Marilyn A. Walker