Contextual bandits algorithms have become essential in real-world user interaction problems recent years. However, these represent context as attribute value representation, which makes them infeasible for real world domains like social networks, are inherently relational. We propose Relational Boosted Bandits (RB2), a contextual algorithm relational based on (relational) boosted trees. RB2 ena...

there remains a conviction that the torrent of publications and the financial outlay on leadership development will create managers with the skills and characters of perfect leaders, capable of guiding healthcare organisations through the challenges and crises of the 21st century. the focus of much attention continues to be the search for the (illusory) core set of heroic qualities, abilities o...