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SIGECOM
2011
ACM
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12 years 10 months ago
GSP auctions with correlated types
The Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction is the primary method by which sponsered search advertisements are sold. We study the performance of this auction in the Bayesian settin...
Brendan Lucier, Renato Paes Leme
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
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12 years 10 months ago
Only valuable experts can be valued
Suppose a principal Alice wishes to reduce her uncertainty regarding some future payoff. Consider a self-proclaimed expert Bob that may either be an informed expert knowing an ex...
Moshe Babaioff, Liad Blumrosen, Nicolas S. Lambert...
AAAI
2011
12 years 7 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
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
An uncertainty-aware query selection model for evaluation of IR systems
We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayl...
AAAI
2012
11 years 9 months ago
MOMDPs: A Solution for Modelling Adaptive Management Problems
In conservation biology and natural resource management, adaptive management is an iterative process of improving management by reducing uncertainty via monitoring. Adaptive manag...
Iadine Chades, Josie Carwardine, Tara G. Martin, S...