Scheduling with uncertain resources: Learning to ask the right questions

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2543-2547

  Carpentier, Alexander ^a   Sharifi, Mehrbod ^a   Fink, Eugene ^a   Carbonell, Jaime G ^a  

^a Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Elicitation; Optimization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; ELICITATION; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING PROCEDURES; MISSING DATA; UNCERTAIN RESOURCE; UNCERTAINTY;

CONTROL THEORY; CYBERNETICS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SCHEDULING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 69949188892     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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