Empirical comparison of various reinforcement learning strategies for sequential targeted marketing

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 3-10

  Abe, Naoki ^a   Pednault, Edwin ^a   Wang, Haixun ^a   Zadrozny, Bianca ^b   Fan, Wei ^a   Apte, Chid ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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