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We study a two-sided matching model where one side of the market (hospitals) has combinatorial preferences over the other side (doctors). Specifically, we consider the setting where hospitals have matroid rank valuations over the doctors,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Alon Eden , Vignesh Viswanathan , Yair Zick

Expert elicitation is an invaluable tool for gaining insights into the degree of clinical knowledge surrounding parameters of interest when designing, or supplementing trial data when analysing, a clinical trial. Elicitation is considered…

Applications · Statistics 2025-08-11 Laura M. Morgan , James M. S. Wason , Kevin J. Wilson , Nina Wilson

The growing demand for key healthcare resources such as clinical expertise and facilities has motivated the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) based decision support systems. We address the problem of predicting clinical workups for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Morteza Noshad , Ivana Jankovic , Jonathan H. Chen

In the past decade, with the development of big data technology, an increasing amount of patient information has been stored as electronic health records (EHRs). Leveraging these data, various doctor recommendation systems have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Luning Bi , Yunlong Wang , Fan Zhang , Zhuqing Liu , Yong Cai , Emily Zhao

Many systems based on knowledge, especially expert systems for medical decision support have been developed. Only systems are based on production rules, and cannot learn and evolve only by updating them. In addition, taking into account…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Abdelhak Mansoul , Baghdad Atmani , Sofia Benbelkacem

We consider the problem of ranking $n$ experts according to their abilities, based on the correctness of their answers to $d$ questions. This is modeled by the so-called crowd-sourcing model, where the answer of expert $i$ on question $k$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Alexandra Carpentier , Nicolas Verzelen

A smart city provides its people with high standard of living through advanced technologies and transport is one of the major foci. With the advent of autonomous vehicles (AVs), an AV-based public transportation system has been proposed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Albert Y. S. Lam

Developing artificial intelligence (AI) tools for healthcare is a collaborative effort, bringing data scientists, clinicians, patients and other disciplines together. In this paper, we explore the collaborative data practices of research…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Rafael Henkin , Elizabeth Remfry , Duncan J. Reynolds , Megan Clinch , Michael R. Barnes

Over the past decade, crowdsourcing has emerged as a cheap and efficient method of obtaining solutions to simple tasks that are difficult for computers to solve but possible for humans. The popularity and promise of crowdsourcing markets…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Aleksandrs Slivkins , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Two general algorithms based on opportunity costs are given for approximating a revenue-maximizing set of bids an auctioneer should accept, in a combinatorial auction in which each bidder offers a price for some subset of the available…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Karhan Akcoglu , James Aspnes , Bhaskar DasGupta , Ming-Yang Kao

This paper proposes a new combinatorial auction framework for local energy flexibility markets, which addresses the issue of prosumers' inability to bundle multiple flexibility time intervals. To solve the underlying NP-complete winner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Awadelrahman M. A. Ahmed , Frank Eliassen , Yan Zhang

We study the combinatorial contracting problem of D\"utting et al. [FOCS '21], in which a principal seeks to incentivize an agent to take a set of costly actions. In their model, there is a binary outcome (the agent can succeed or fail),…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Paul Dütting , Michal Feldman , Yoav Gal Tzur

As a Ph.D. student with a diverse background in both public and private sectors, I have encountered numerous challenges in cross-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder team projects. My research on developing team compositions that involve…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Mohammed Almutairi , Diego Gómez-Zará

In the online digital realm, recommendation systems are ubiquitous and play a crucial role in enhancing user experience. These systems leverage user preferences to provide personalized recommendations, thereby helping users navigate through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jaime Hieu Do , Trung-Hoang Le , Hady W. Lauw

With the continuous expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, edge computing mode has emerged in recent years to overcome the shortcomings of traditional cloud computing mode, such as high delay, network congestion, and large resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jianxiong Guo , Xingjian Ding , Weijia Jia

An auction house cannot generally provide the optimal auction technology to every client. Instead it provides one or several auction technologies, and clients select the most appropriate one. For example, eBay provides ascending auctions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Jason D. Hartline , Tim Roughgarden

America has one of the best medical systems in the world. The medical treatment care options offered by the medical system make it sophisticated. However, many American patients are not receiving health care on a regular basis, and at the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Seongwoo Choi

A key challenge in combinatorial auctions is designing bid formats that accurately capture agents' preferences while remaining computationally feasible. This is especially true for electricity auctions, where complex preferences complicate…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-26 Thomas Hübner , Gabriela Hug

We study the problem of achieving high efficiency in iterative combinatorial auctions (ICAs). ICAs are a kind of combinatorial auction where the auctioneer interacts with bidders to gather their valuation information using a limited number…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ryota Maruo , Hisashi Kashima

Mixtures of experts models provide a framework in which covariates may be included in mixture models. This is achieved by modelling the parameters of the mixture model as functions of the concomitant covariates. Given their mixture model…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-22 Isobel Claire Gormley , Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter