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ECIS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Transacting with citizens: Australian government policy strategy and implementation of online tax lodgement
Many governments have shown leadership in encouraging their citizenry to conduct transactions on-line. The policies that underpin these initiatives refer to a blend of civic benef...
Jeff Chamberlain, Tanya Castleman
KDD
2010
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing debt collections using constrained reinforcement learning
In this paper, we propose and develop a novel approach to the problem of optimally managing the tax, and more generally debt, collections processes at financial institutions. Our...
Naoki Abe, Prem Melville, Cezar Pendus, Chandan K....
AMEC
2004
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
A Budget-Balanced, Incentive-Compatible Scheme for Social Choice
Abstract. Many practical scenarios involve solving a social choice problem: a group of self-interested agents have to agree on an outcome that best fits their combined preferences...
Boi Faltings
MST
2010
196views more  MST 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Non-Cooperative Cost Sharing Games via Subsidies
We consider a cost sharing system where users are selfish and act according to their own interest. There is a set of facilities and each facility provides services to a subset of ...
Niv Buchbinder, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Joseph Naor, Ar...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Linear model combining by optimizing the Area under the ROC curve
In some classification problems, like the detection of illnesses in patients, classes are very unbalanced and the misclassification costs for different classes vary significantly....
David M. J. Tax, Robert P. W. Duin