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, 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.