Factored MDPs for detecting topics of user sessions

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Factored MDPs for detecting topics of user sessions. / Tavakol, Maryam; Brefeld, Ulf.
RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2014. S. 33-40.

Publikation: Beiträge in SammelwerkenAufsätze in KonferenzbändenForschungbegutachtet

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Tavakol, M & Brefeld, U 2014, Factored MDPs for detecting topics of user sessions. in RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, S. 33-40, 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems - RecSys2014, Foster City, USA / Vereinigte Staaten, 06.10.14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2645710.2645739

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Tavakol, M., & Brefeld, U. (2014). Factored MDPs for detecting topics of user sessions. In RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (S. 33-40). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2645710.2645739

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Tavakol M, Brefeld U. Factored MDPs for detecting topics of user sessions. in RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2014. S. 33-40 doi: 10.1145/2645710.2645739

Bibtex

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