Valuation, Categories and Attributes

Valuation, Categories and Attributes

Existing research on categories has only examined indirectly the value associated with being a member of a category relative to the value of the set of attributes that determine membership in that category. This study uses survey data to analyze consumers' preferences for the "organic" label versus for the attributes underlying that label. We found that consumers generally preferred products wi...

Correction: Valuation, Categories and Attributes

Space Invaders : Categories , Valuation and Union Organizing Drives , 1961 – 1999

This paper develops a theory for why " audiences " who have traditionally preferred organizational " candidates " with clearly defined and specialized identities would come to prefer generalists. Such a transformation is demonstrated in the evolution of trade-union organizing in the United States between 1961 and 1999 away from exclusive industrial jurisdictions and toward diverse organizing. W...

Basic level scene understanding: categories, attributes and structures

A longstanding goal of computer vision is to build a system that can automatically understand a 3D scene from a single image. This requires extracting semantic concepts and 3D information from 2D images which can depict an enormous variety of environments that comprise our visual world. This paper summarizes our recent efforts toward these goals. First, we describe the richly annotated SUN data...

Stated Preference Methods for Valuation of Forest Attributes

The valuation methods described in this chapter are based on the idea that forest ecosystems produce a wide variety of goods and services that are valued by people. Rather than focusing attention on the holistic value of forest ecosystems as is done in contingent valuation studies, attribute-based valuation methods (ABMs) focus attention on a set of attributes that have management or policy rel...