There are 8 cycle/deg ripples or oscillations in performance as a function of location near Mach bands in experiments measuring Mach bands' masking effects on random polarity signal bars. The oscillations with increments are 180 degrees out of phase with those for decrements. The oscillations, much larger than the measurement error, appear to relate to the weighting function of the spatial-freq...

Original and cumulative prospect theory differ in the composition rule used to combine the probability weighting function and the value function. We test these composition rules by performing a novel test. We apply estimates of prospect theory’s weighting and value function obtained from two-outcome cash equivalents, a domain where original and cumulative prospect theory coincide, to three-outc...

Complexities of geological processes portrayed as certain feature in a map (e.g., faults) are natural sources of uncertainties in decision-making for exploration of mineral deposits. Besides natural sources of uncertainties, knowledge-driven (e.g., fuzzy logic) mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM) is also plagued and incurs further uncertainty in subjective judgment of analyst when there is no r...

Abstract— We propose a design method for IIR low-pass differentiators under a specified maximum pole radius constraint. In the proposed method, we express the design problem in a quadratic form with respect to the coefficients of the transfer function. Since the cost function includes a weighting function, the frequency-weighting can be specified in the pass-band. Also, a linear phase property ...

We find that in cumulative prospect theory (CPT) with a concave value function in gains, a lottery with finite expected value may have infinite subjective value. This problem does not occur in expected utility theory. We characterize situations in CPT where the problem can be resolved. In particular, we define a class of admissible probability distributions and admissible parameter regimes for ...

We introduce a global inference model for keyphrase extraction that reduces overgeneration errors by weighting sets of keyphrase candidates according to their component words. Our model can be applied on top of any supervised or unsupervised word weighting function. Experimental results show a substantial improvement over commonly used word-based ranking approaches.

This paper considers the automatic design of fuzzy rule-based classification systems from labeled data. The classification accuracy and interpretability of generated rules are of major importance in fuzzy classification systems. We propose a weighting function for compatibility grade of patterns that improves the performance of fuzzy classification system without degrading the interpretability ...

This paper presents a method for condition monitoring of systems that operate in a repetitive manner. A data-driven method is proposed that considers changes in the distribution of data samples obtained from multiple executions of one or several tasks. This is made possible with the use of kernel density estimators and the Hellinger metric between distributions. To increase robustness to unknow...

This document reviews the history, development, and use of auditory weighting functions for noise impact assessment in humans and marine mammals. Advances from the modern era of electroacoustics, psychophysical studies of loudness, and other related hearing studies are reviewed with respect to the development and application of human auditory weighting functions, particularly A-weighting. The u...