This tutorial targets AI researchers who are interested in designing and applying structured prediction models to problems with interdependent output variables. The tutorial will introduce the problem of structured prediction exemplifying it in multiple AI problems, and then cover recent developments in efficient inference and learning methods in discriminative structured models and outline fur...

During the last years a great number of Query Performance Prediction methods have been proposed. However, this explosion of prediction method proposals have not been paralleled by an in-depth study of suitable methods to evaluate these estimations. In this paper we analyse the current approaches to evaluate Query Performance Prediction methods, highlighting some limitations they present. We als...

Magic: The Gathering (MTG, or Magic) is the oldest and most popular trading card game played today, due in part to the complex interplay of thousands of cards. In two-player games, each player constructs a "main" deck (referred to as simply 'deck' hereafter) which consists of 60 cards, allowing players to pursue an enormous number of strategies and card combinations. When experienced Magic play...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a general framework for the prediction of complex multiscale phenomena and to illustrate this framework through comparison to two examples of current interest to the authors. Prediction involves a two step process of inverse prediction to describe the system, given observations of its behavior, and forward prediction, to specify system behavior, given its...

OF THE DISSERTATION Novel Structure Similarity-Based Methods for Identifying Drug-Like Compounds

The paper explores the impact of structured learning experiences that were designed to challenge students’ ways of thinking and promote creativity. The aim was to develop the ability of students, coming from different engineering disciplines and characterized by particular thinking style profiles, to collaboratively work on a project-based learning experience in an educational environment. Thre...