Multidimensional Binary Search for Contextual Decision-Making

Modeling contextual decision making in service organizations

Motivation Service organizations rely on efficient, high quality satisfaction of customer needs. In industries as diverse as call centers, banks, and healthcare, managers attempt to institute quality standards through standardized protocols, best practice guidelines, and workflow management systems. These devices offer a good understanding of the ideal process, but inadequately describe the con...

Integrating Contextual Issues in Ethical Decision Making

Support for Decision Making: Electoral Search

The Netherlands had parliamentary elections on 22 November 2006. We built a system which helps voters to make an informed choice among the 16 participating parties. One of the most important pieces of information in the Dutch election and subsequent coalition government formation is the party manifesto. This is a text document with an average length of 45 pages. Our system provides the voter wi...

Proceduralization of the Contextual Knowledge for Decision Making

Although it seems obvious that decision making is a contextual task, it is rarely referred to contextual information in papers dealing with decision making. We begin by examining the contextual dimension of decision making. Then we explain our views about the acquisition of contextual data and the construction of a reasoning framework appropriate for decision making (proceduralization). RÉSUMÉ:...

Universal Scanning and Sequential Decision Making for Multidimensional Data

We investigate several problems in scanning of multidimensional data arrays, such as universal scanning and prediction (“scandiction”, for short), and scandiction of noisy data arrays. These problems arise in several aspects of image and video processing, such as predictive coding, filtering and denoising. In predictive coding of images, for example, an image is compressed by coding the predict...