The reliability of a system is often referred to as a quality index reflecting the capability of the system to complete the specified function within specified time in reasonably satisfactory manner under the specified conditions (including hard conditions: say, operating environments, input materials and soft conditions: say, system management and operator team, and computerized monitoring ato...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 1 . Credibility and inflation expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 A . Analytical underpinnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 B . Policies to achieve credibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Witness credibility is important for establishing testimonial value. The story model posits that people construct narratives from evidence but does not explain how credibility is assessed. Formal approaches use Bayesian networks (BN) to represent legal evidence. Recent empirical work suggests people might also reason using qualitative causal networks. In two studies, participants read a realist...

The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between both expert witness confidence and juror personality with expert witness credibility, as well as expert witness credibility with juror sentencing outcome. Participants were presented with one of three randomly assigned filmed scenarios depicting various levels of manipulated witness confidence. They then completed a sentenc...

The popularization of Web applications has given rise to new services every day, demanding mechanisms to ensure the credibility of these services. Since now, little has been done to measure and understand the credibility of services on this complex Web environment, which itself is a major research challenge. From the challenges related to the task of assigning a credibility value to an online s...

We consider an alternative to the usual credibility premium that arises from squared-error loss, namely, a so-called equitable credibility premium (Promislow and Young, 1999). We derive formulas for the credibility weight in certain cases and give sufficient conditions for exact credibility.