Novel exploration techniques (NETs) for malaria policy interventions

32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2018

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 7735-7740

  Bent, Oliver ^a,b   Remy, Sekou L ^b   Roberts, Stephen ^a   Walcott Bryant, Aisha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISEASES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DATA DRIVEN DECISION; DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; EXPLORATION TECHNIQUES; GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION; HUMAN EXPERT; MULTI-ARMED BANDIT PROBLEM; POLICY INTERVENTION; POLICY MAKERS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 85060472737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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