Discussions about simulation credibility tend to focus on the issue of "validation", i.e., how well simulation predictions match real world observations. While validation is certainly a most direct and intuitively accessible measure of simulation credibility, the validation process has numerous well-known limitations. Validation is by no means the only measure of simulation credibility, however...

Though Twitter acts as a realtime news source with people acting as sensors and sending event updates from all over the world, rumors spread via Twitter have been noted to cause considerable damage. Given a set of popular Twitter events along with related users and tweets, we study the problem of automatically assessing the credibility of such events. We propose a credibility analysis approach ...

How do people reason about complex bodies of legal evidence? The story model of juror decision-making posits that people construct stories to determine guilt. But the story model does not model how evidence items relate to elements within the story, how the credibility and reliability of the evidence (e.g., witness testimony) is assessed, or how this affects story evaluation. Recent empirical w...

Considering corresponding credibility on every evaluation value of interval neutrosophic numbers (INNs) in interval neutrosophic decision making, we put forward two interval neutrosophic weighted aggregation operators considering credibility, including a credibility-induced interval neutrosophic weighted arithmetic averaging (CIINWAA) operator and a credibility-induced interval neutrosophic wei...

Credibility models are actuarial tools to distribute premiums fairly among a heterogeneous group of policyholders (henceforth called entities). More generally, they can be seen as prediction methods applicable in any setting where repeated measures are made for subjects with different risk levels. The credibility theory features of actuar consist of matrix hachemeister containing the famous dat...

The migration from paper-based services to electronic version has developed the potential of e-government applications enormously. However, designing a credible government web site is not a simple task. This paper discusses the importance of credibility for the Malaysian states government web sites. Top web credibility factors are listed. Reviews on five state government websites are also prese...

This article reviews selected literature related to the credibility of information, including (1) the general markers of credibility, and how different source, message and receiver characteristics affect people’s perceptions of information; (2) the impact of information medium on the assessment of credibility; and (3) the assessment of credibility in the context of information presented on the ...

Linguistic terms are often used to represent the truth degree or credibility degree to manage the uncertainty or imprecision as one of popular ways of knowledge representation in the perception-based decision making problem. This present work represents the credibility of uncertain knowledge using linguistic values. The linguistic-valued credibility is then modeled based on a lattice ordered lo...

In actuarial practice, regression models serve as a popular statistical tool for analyzing insurance data and tariff ratemaking. In this paper, we consider classical credibility models that can be embedded within the framework of mixed linear models. For inference about fixed effects and variance components, likelihood-based methods such as (restricted) maximum likelihood estimators are commonl...

BACKGROUND Despite robust empirical support for the efficacy of trauma-focused treatments, the dissemination proves difficult, especially in relation to patients with comorbid psychosis. Many therapists endorse negative beliefs about the credibility, burden, and harm of such treatment. OBJECTIVE This feasibility study explores the impact of specialized training on therapists' beliefs about tr...