Today’s hearing aids are frequently fitted using prescriptive formulae. Wearer satisfaction is assumed when the frequency-gain response of the hearing aid matches the target frequency-gain response prescribed by a specific formula. Although this approach simplifies hearing aid fitting, there are several reasons to suspect that this approach may have some shortcomings in ensuring an optimal fit ...

The Allais Paradox seems as fresh today as it was when first posed some 40 years ago. It has been discussed in the intervening decades and led to many suggestions for modifying, extending or abandoning standard subjective expected utility theory. It has also led to much discussion of the distinction between normative and descriptive models and their rôle in prescriptive decision support. It see...

This paper examines the efficiency and effectiveness of a prescriptive systems development methodology in practice. The UK Government’s mandatory Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method (SSADM) was examined to determine its value to software projects. The evidence was collected from interviews with 17 project managers, discussions with participants on 3 large SSADM projects and from obser...

This article reviews 322 representative contributions to the software process improvement (SPI) literature. The contributions are categorised according to a simple framework: whether their primary goal is prescriptive (to tell SPI professionals what to do), descriptive (to report actual instances of SPI programs in software organisations), or reflective (theoretically analytical). The field is ...

This paper reviews the state of the art of research on individual decision-making in high-stakes, low-probability settings. A central theme is that resolving high-stakes decisions optimally poses a formidable challenge not only to naı̈ve decision makers, but also to users of more sophisticated tools, such as decision analysis. Such decisions are difficult to make because precise information abou...

The purpose of this demo is to introduce the Language Resources, Tools and Services (LRTS) that are being prepared within the Central and South-East European Resources (CESAR) project. To the computational linguistic community the languages covered by CESAR (Bulgarian, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian and Slovakian) were so far considered under-resourced and their language resources and too...

Redressing the imbalance between community expectations and the capacity of the hospital system to meet them will require more than recommendations for prescriptive frameworks and practices.

background and aims: infertility is one of the most important conditions in reproductive system and there is no reliable estimates for global prevalence of infertility. therefore, knowing the prevalence of infertility is important and can be effective in decision making. methods: we systematically reviewed all published papers in medline database and scopus (1988–2010). univariate and multivari...