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Despite the increasing popularity of massive open online courses (MOOCs), many suffer from high dropout and low success rates. Early prediction of student success for targeted intervention is therefore essential to ensure no student is left…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Vinitra Swamy , Mirko Marras , Tanja Käser

The use of machine learning techniques has expanded in education research, driven by the rich data from digital learning environments and institutional data warehouses. However, replication of machine learned models in the domain of the…

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As the Software as a Service (SaaS) paradigm continues to reshape the software industry, a nuanced understanding of its operational dynamics becomes increasingly crucial. This paper delves into the intricate relationship between pricing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Alejandro García-Fernández , José Antonio Parejo , Antonio Ruiz-Cortés

Many ethical issues in machine learning are connected to the training data. Online data markets are an important source of training data, facilitating both production and distribution. Recently, a trend has emerged of for-profit "ethical"…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Augustin Chaintreau , Roland Maio , Juba Ziani

The rise of big data analytics has automated the decision-making of companies and increased supply chain agility. In this paper, we study the supply chain contract design problem faced by a data-driven supplier who needs to respond to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Xuejun Zhao , Ruihao Zhu , William B. Haskell

Big data has been emerging as a new approach in utilizing large datasets to optimize complex system operations. Big data is fueled with Internet-of-Things (IoT) services that generate immense sensory data from numerous sensors and devices.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Dusit Niyato , Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Ping Wang , Dong In Kim , Zhu Han

Pricing decisions stand out as one of the most critical tasks a company faces, particularly in today's digital economy. As with other business decision-making problems, pricing unfolds in a highly competitive and uncertain environment.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Daniel García Rasines , Roi Naveiro , David Ríos Insua , Simón Rodríguez Santana

Data play an increasingly important role in smart data analytics, which facilitate many data-driven applications. The goal of various data markets aims to alleviate the issue of isolated data islands, so as to benefit data circulation. The…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Xiaoye Miao , Huanhuan Peng , Xinyu Huang , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao , Jianwei Yin

We introduce a model for a market based economic system of cyber-risk valuation to correct fundamental problems of incentives within the information technology and information processing industries. We assess the makeup of the current day…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Timothy J. O'Shea , Adam Mondl , T. Charles. Clancy

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their potential for solving real-world problems in various fields, such as logistics, finance, environmental management, and engineering.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Noor A. Rashed , Yossra H. Ali , Tarik A. Rashid , A. Salih

As more and more users begin to use the cloud for their computing needs, datacenter operators are increasingly pressed to effectively allocate their resources among these client users. Yet while much work has been done in this area,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Carlee Joe-Wong , Soumya Sen

MOOCs offer free and open access to a wide audience, but completion rates remain low, often due to a lack of personalized content. To address this issue, it is essential to predict learner performance in order to provide tailored feedback.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Anass El Ayady , Maxime Devanne , Germain Forestier , Nour El Mawas

As Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) become increasingly popular, it is promising to automatically provide extracurricular knowledge for MOOC users. Suffering from semantic drifts and lack of knowledge guidance, existing methods can not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Jifan Yu , Chenyu Wang , Gan Luo , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Jie Tang , Zhiyuan Liu

Organizations often lack sufficient data to effectively train machine learning (ML) models, while others possess valuable data that remains underutilized. Data markets promise to unlock substantial value by matching data suppliers with…

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In this era of computerization, education has also revamped itself and is not limited to old lecture method. The regular quest is on to find out new ways to make it more effective and efficient for students. Nowadays, lots of data is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Pooja Thakar , Anil Mehta , Manisha

This review presents the set of electricity price models proposed in the literature since the opening of power markets. We focus on price models applied to financial pricing and risk management. We classify these models according to their…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-07-30 Thomas Deschatre , Olivier Féron , Pierre Gruet

In this discussion paper, we survey recent research surrounding robustness of machine learning models. As learning algorithms become increasingly more popular in data-driven control systems, their robustness to data uncertainty must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Brendon G. Anderson , Tanmay Gautam , Somayeh Sojoudi

The competitive nature of Cloud marketplaces as new concerns in delivery of services makes the pricing policies a crucial task for firms. so that, pricing strategies has recently attracted many researchers. Since game theory can handle such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Safiye Ghasemi , Mohammad Reza Meybodi , Mehdi Dehghan Takht-Fooladi , Amir Masoud Rahmani

Cloud computing as a fairly new commercial paradigm, widely investigated by different researchers, already has a great range of challenges. Pricing is a major problem in Cloud computing marketplace; as providers are competing to attract…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-21 S. Ghasemi , M. R. Meybodi , M. Dehghan , A. M. Rahmani

Over the past decade, higher education has undergone successive shifts driven by three major developments: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Smart Teaching technologies, and AI-enhanced learning. Each paradigm emerged to address specific…

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