: The application and estimation of expected utility based decision models would benefit from having additional simple and flexible functional forms to represent risk preferences. ...
Abstract. An open challenge in information distillation is the evaluation and optimization of the utility of ranked lists with respect to flexible user interactions over multiple ...
In many classification tasks training data have missing feature values that can be acquired at a cost. For building accurate predictive models, acquiring all missing values is of...
Prem Melville, Foster J. Provost, Raymond J. Moone...
In this paper we discuss the possible application of new concepts in web content extraction: utility assessment, utility annealing, and dynamic aggregated document generation. Aft...
Abstract. In this paper we investigate methods for analyzing the expected value of adding information in distributed task scheduling problems. As scheduling problems are NP-complet...