CMSC 601 Discussion Questions
February 5, 2009

You do not need to include written answers to all of these questions in your paper summaries, but they may help you in organizing your thoughts about the paper. You should come to class prepared to comment on all of these questions---even if in some cases your answer is, "I couldn't understand that from the paper." (In that case, though, you should have some observations on why that particular question is difficult to answer.)

Melville et al., "An expected utility-approach to active feature-value acquisition," ICDM 2005

Ting, "A comparative study of cost-sensitive boosting algorithms," ICML-00

Comparing the papers