Text Understanding systems often commit to a single best interpretation of a sentence before analyzing subsequent text. This interpretation is chosen by resolving ambiguous altern...
In bandit problems, a decision-maker must choose between a set of alternatives, each of which has a fixed but unknown rate of reward, to maximize their total number of rewards ov...
Michael D. Lee, Shunan Zhang, Miles Munro, Mark St...
We consider the Bayesian ranking and selection problem, in which one wishes to allocate an information collection budget as efficiently as possible to choose the best among severa...
The well-known Impossibility Theorem of Arrow asserts that any Generalized Social Welfare Function (GSWF) with at least three alternatives, which satisfies Independence of Irrelev...
Decision making under uncertainty is usually based on the comparative evaluation of different alternatives by means of a decision criterion. In a qualitative setting, pessimistic ...
A familiar quandary arises when there are several possible alternatives for the solution of a problem, but no way of knowing which, if any, are viable for a particular problem inst...
During software requirements analysis and design steps, developers and stakeholders have many alternatives of artifacts such as software component selection and should make decisi...