Suspicion and Dispositional Inference

Suspicion scoring of networked entities based on guilt - by - association , collective inference , and focused data access

We describe a guilt-by-association system that can be used to rank networked entities by their suspiciousness. We demonstrate the algorithm on a suite of data sets generated by a terrorist-world simulator developed to support a DoD program. Each data set consists of thousands of entities and some known links between them. The system ranks truly malicious entities highly, even if only relatively...

Suspicion scoring of networked entities based on guilt-by-association, collective inference, and focused data access1

We describe a guilt-by-association system that can be used to rank networked entities by their suspiciousness. We demonstrate the algorithm on a suite of data sets generated by a terrorist-world simulator developed to support a DoD program. Each data set consists of thousands of entities and some known links between them. The system ranks truly malicious entities highly, even if only relatively...

Dispositional optimism.

Optimism is a cognitive construct (expectancies regarding future outcomes) that also relates to motivation: optimistic people exert effort, whereas pessimistic people disengage from effort. Study of optimism began largely in health contexts, finding positive associations between optimism and markers of better psychological and physical health. Physical health effects likely occur through differ...

Dispositional Pluralism

Dispositional essentialism

Dispositions, Mellor once remarked, are as shameful in many eyes as pregnant spinsters used to be, ' ideally to be explained away, or entitled to a shotgun wedding to take the name of some decently real categorical property' [18]. This 'Victorian prejudice' against dispositions still exists. On reflection, this fact is perhaps not really surprising. Dispositions have dallied in most corners of ...