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INTELLCOMM
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Inferring Presence in a Context-Aware Instant Messaging System
Abstract. The increasing volume of digital communication is raising new challenges in the management of the information flow. We discuss the usage of context to infer presence info...
Mikko Perttunen, Jukka Riekki
NIPS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
On the Concentration of Expectation and Approximate Inference in Layered Networks
We present an analysis of concentration-of-expectation phenomena in layered Bayesian networks that use generalized linear models as the local conditional probabilities. This frame...
XuanLong Nguyen, Michael I. Jordan
COGSCI
2004
120views more  COGSCI 2004»
13 years 9 months ago
Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers
Previous research suggests that children can infer causal relations from patterns of events. However, what appear to be cases of causal inference may simply reduce to children rec...
David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
CORR
2010
Springer
142views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Budget Feasible Mechanisms
We study a novel class of mechanism design problems in which the outcomes are constrained by the payments. This basic class of mechanism design problems captures many common econom...
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Yaron Singer
AAAI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Partial Revelation Automated Mechanism Design
In most mechanism design settings, optimal general-purpose mechanisms are not known. Thus the automated design of mechanisms tailored to specific instances of a decision scenario...
Nathanael Hyafil, Craig Boutilier