Learning periodic human behaviour models from sparse data for crowdsourcing aid delivery in developing countries

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 29th Conference, UAI 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 401-410

  McInerney, James ^a   Rogers, Alex ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOUR MODELS; HUMAN BEHAVIOURS; LOCAL POPULATIONS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MOBILITY PREDICTIONS; RURAL LOCATIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84888177692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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