This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
This paper summarizes research on a new emerging framework for learning to plan using the Markov decision process model (MDP). In this paradigm, two approaches to learning to plan...
Sridhar Mahadevan, Sarah Osentoski, Jeffrey Johns,...
When solving clinical decision-making problems with modern graphical decision-theoretic models such as influence diagrams, we obtain decision tables with optimal decision alternat...
The securities market is the fundamental theoretical framework in economics and finance for resource allocation under uncertainty. Securities serve both to reallocate risk and to ...
We define a class of graphs that summarize in a compact visual way the interaction structure between binary multivariate characteristics. This allows studying the conditional depe...