Publications related to Cardinal utility

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Generative AI-Enabled Conversational Interaction to Support Self-Directed Learning Experiences in Transversal Computational Thinking

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah, Abdessalam Ouaazki

As computational thinking (CT) becomes increasingly acknowledged as an important skill in education, self-directed learning (SDL) emerges as a key strategy for developing this capability. The advent of generative AI (GenAI) conversational agents has disrup ...

2024

Complex Daily Activities, Country-Level Diversity, and Smartphone Sensing: A Study in Denmark, Italy, Mongolia, Paraguay, and UK

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Smartphones enable understanding human behavior with activity recognition to support peoples daily lives. Prior studies focused on using inertial sensors to detect simple activities (sitting, walking, running, etc.) and were mostly conducted in homogeneous ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

The Digital Ethics Canvas: A Guide For Ethical Risk Assessment And Mitigation In The Digital Domain

Vladimir Macko, Patrick Jermann, Adrian Christian Holzer, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran

Ethical concerns in the digital domain are growing with the extremely fast evolution of technology and the increasing scale at which software is deployed, potentially affecting our societies globally. It is crucial that engineers evaluate more systematical ...

2023

Monotonicity in the trip scheduling problem

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte

The equilibrium of the archetypal morning commute problem with alpha -,B - gamma preferences has been shown to be unstable with various rational adjustment mechanisms, under both continuous and discrete day-to-day dynamics. It is not clear however whether ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Price-based regulation of oligopolistic markets under discrete choice models of demand

Michel Bierlaire, Virginie Janine Camille Lurkin, Stefano Bortolomiol

We propose a framework to find optimal price-based policies to regulate markets characterized by oligopolistic competition and in which consumers make a discrete choice among a finite set of alternatives. The framework accommodates general discrete choice ...

2022

Scheduling trips through a bottleneck: monotonicity and stability

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte

This paper investigates the stability of departure time choice within a population of commuters that need to pass through a bottleneck of constant capacity. It is shown that the corresponding utility function is monotonic if and only if the marginal utilit ...

2019

Stable Fractional Matchings

Aris Filos Ratsikas

We study a generalization of the classical stable matching problem that allows for cardinal preferences (as opposed to ordinal) and fractional matchings (as opposed to integral). After observing that, in this cardinal setting, stable fractional matchings c ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

SmarPer: Context-Aware and Automatic Runtime-Permissions for Mobile Devices

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Joana Catarina Soares Machado, Katarzyna Lucja Olejnik

Permission systems are the main defense that mobile platforms, such as Android and iOS, offer to users to protect their private data from prying apps. However, due to the tension between usability and control, such systems have several limitations that oft ...

IEEE2017

A Robust Resolution of Newcomb's Paradox

Thomas Alois Weber

Newcomb's problem is viewed as a dynamic game with an agent and a superior being as players. Depending on whether or not a risk-neutral agent's confidence in the superior being, as measured by a subjective probability assigned to the move order, exceeds a ...

Springer2016

A Non-Parametric Approach to Demand Forecasting in Revenue Management

Shadi Sharif Azadeh

In revenue management, the profitability of the inventory and pricing decisions rests on the accuracy of demand forecasts. However, whenever a product is no longer available, true demand may differ from registered bookings, thus inducing a negative bias in ...

2015

Predicting Users' Motivations behind Location Check-Ins and Utility Implications of Privacy Protection Mechanisms

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Reza Shokri, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Igor Bilogrevic

Location check-ins contain both geographical and semantic information about the visited venues, in the form of tags (e.g., “restaurant”). Such data might reveal some personal information about users beyond what they actually want to disclose, hence their p ...

2015

The Neurobiological Foundations of Valuation in Human Decision Making under Uncertainty

This chapter focuses on valuation in the context of choice under uncertainty. When valuation is a pursuit distinct from choice, values revealed through choice may be different from the valuations that emerge from the (choice-independent) computations. In m ...

Academic Press2009

Normalization of network generalized extreme value models

Jeffrey Newman

Generalized extreme value (GEV) models provide a convenient way to model choice behavior that is consistent with utility maximization theory, but the development of specific new models within the GEV family has been slow, due to the difficulty of ensuring ...

2008

Ontology filtering

Vincent Jean Fabrice Schickel

With the ever growing importance of internet, people are becoming overwhelmed by information. More concretely, consider a situation where you find yourself with an evening alone and would like to rent a DVD to watch. For several reasons, this is a difficul ...

EPFL2007

Normalization and correlation of cross-nested logit models

Michel Bierlaire, Emmanuel Abbé

We address two fundamental issues associated with the use of cross-nested logit models. On the one hand, we justify the adequate normalization of the model proposed by Wen and Koppelman (2001). On the other hand, we provide an analysis of the correlation s ...

2007

Preference-based search with suggestions

Paolo Viappiani

The internet provides an unprecedented variety of opportunities to people. Whether looking for a place to go on vacation, an apartment to rent, or a PC to buy, the potential customer is faced with countless possibilities. Most people have difficulty findin ...

EPFL2007

A comparative study of compound critique generation in conversational recommender systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Jiyong Zhang

Critiquing techniques provide an easy way for users to feedback their preferences over one or several attributes of the products in a conversational recommender system. While unit critiques only allow users to critique one attribute of the products each ti ...

Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, D-69121, Germany2006

Preference-based Search using Example-Critiquing with Suggestions

Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu Faltings, Paolo Viappiani

We consider interactive tools that help users search for their most preferred item in a large collection of options. In particular, we examine example-critiquing, a technique for enabling users to incrementally construct preference models by critiquing exa ...

2006