In analog integrated circuits, process variations result in physical parameter variations. Simulated performance values must then be considered with their tolerance intervals. Consequently, contrarily to digital circuits where the outputs are either ’0’ or ’1’ such that we can decide without ambiguity whether a fault is detectable or not, for analog circuits fault detectability is still a vague...

Recent improvements in information technologies have led to the creation and advancement of numerous interfaces or visual displays. However, not all innovations in visual representations optimize their users’ decisional performance. This research examines whether granting users discretion improves their decisional accuracy and expedites their decision making, as well as reduces their stress and...

The objective of this paper is to show how ambiguity, and a decision maker (DM)’s response to it, can be modelled formally in the context of a general decision model. We introduce a relation derived from the DM’s preferences, called ‘‘unambiguous preference’’, and show that it can be represented by a set of probabilities. We provide such set with a simple differential characterization, and argu...

In this paper, we explore several statistical methods to find solutions to the problem of query translation ambiguity. Indeed, we propose and compare a new possibilistic approach for query translation derived from a probabilistic one, by applying a classical probability-possibility transformation of probability distributions, which introduces a certain tolerance in the selection of word transla...

A self-organizing neural network is proposed to handle multiple temporal sequences with states in common. The proposed network combines context-based competitive learning with time-delayed Hebbian learning to encode spatial features and temporal order of sequence items, respectively. A responsibility function to avoid catastrophic forgetting, and a redundancy mechanism to avoid loss of stored s...

In analog circuits, process variations result in physical parameter variations. Simulated values must then be considered with there tolerance intervals. Consequently, contrarily to digital circuits where the outputs are either '0' or '1' such that we can decide without ambiguity whether a fault is detectable or not, for analog circuits the fault detectability is a vague problem as the fault can...

For local content is required in the Indonesian curriculum, current study aims at determining values derived from women struggling floating markets of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Five distinctive were revealed using direct observation and Delphi Techniques: a high tolerance for ambiguity, sustainable innovation, independence, risk-taking propensity, external locus control. Since teachers consi...

According to the well-known distinction attributed to Knight (1921), there are two kinds of uncertainty. The first, called “risk,” corresponds to situations in which all events relevant to decision making are associated with obvious probability assignments (which every decision maker agrees to). The second, called “(Knightian) uncertainty” or (following Ellsberg (1961)) “ambiguity,” corresponds...