Accommodation: a cognitive heuristic for background information

A Heuristic Model for Predicting Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy prediction is one of the major business classification problems. The main purpose of this study is to investigate Kohonen self-organizing feature map in term of performance accuracy in the area of bankruptcy prediction.  A sample of 108 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange is used for the study. Our results confirm that Kohonen network is a robust model for predicting bankruptcy in ...

Background Information

Cognitive radio as a background for adaptive multimedia services

Radio frequency spectrum properly is and has to be regarded as natural resource. This implies that it has value, it is scarce and has to be accessible to the people of the country that is governing it. Spectrum has to be both protected and nurtured in order to coop with the challenges brought by new wireless technologies evolving every day and converting some recently unattractive bands in the ...

BlockTree - Pedagogical Information Visualization for Heuristic Search

BlockTree is an information visualization tool that helps students explore nuances of heuristic search algorithms, such as A* and WA*. The goal of such exploration is to achieve a level of understanding that is deeper than merely being able to trace the algorithm on an artificially small domain. Instead, BlockTree presents a single execution snapshot of a heuristic search tree encompassing up t...

Factive Presuppositions, Accommodation and Information Structure

There are three ways to refer to a fact from the complement of a factive verb: 1) via abstract object anaphoric reference, or, with a full sentential complement that will be interpreted either 2) as a bound presupposition or 3) as triggering a presupposition of a fact that will have to be accommodated. Spoken corpus examples reveal that these three possibilities differ in relation to the type o...