Combinatorial auctions, that is, auctions where bidders can bid on combinations of items, tend to lead to more efficient allocations than traditional auction mechanisms in multi-i...
Intelligent tutoring systems help students acquire cognitive skills by tracing students’ knowledge and providing relevant feedback. However, feedback that focuses only on the cog...
Ido Roll, Ryan Shaun Baker, Vincent Aleven, Bruce ...
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
If appropriately used, prior knowledge can significantly improve the predictive accuracy of learning algorithms or reduce the amount of training data needed. In this paper we intr...
We investigate the following problem: Given a set of documents of a particular topic or class ?, and a large set ? of mixed documents that contains documents from class ? and othe...