Analysis of uncertain data: Selection of probes for information gathering

Anatole Gershman, Eugene Fink, Bin Fu, and Jaime G. Carbonell

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pages 2227-2232, 2009.

Abstract

We consider the problem of gathering data for the evaluation of given hypotheses, and describe a method for analyzing tradeoffs between the expected utility and the cost of data collection.