The translation of Digital products applicable to military application has been affected by the DoD's need for lower cost products. Products developed for military application must retain robust mechanical characteristics; however, each product may be tailored to meet government specifications such as mean time between failure and temperature range. Design changes for military use have had a be...

In a previous paper Low91] we presented two new models of timed CSP. The rst model included biased operators in the syntax, which could be used to model diierent priorities on actions. The second model extended this by adding a probabilistic choice operator to the syntax; this allowed us to give a semantics which modelled the probabilities of diierent behaviours occurring. In Low92b] we present...

In order to create more comfortable and energy saving living spaces, we have to investigate what is comfortable and how to measure comfort of users in a living space. Some measures of thermal comfort have been defined as Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) and Predicted Percentage Dissatisfied (PPD) as an international standard. However, complex and high cost equipments are required to measure PMV by con...

Recent findings in the domain of combining classifiers provide a surprising revision of the usefulness of diversity for modelling combined performance. Although there is a common agreement that a successful fusion system should be composed of accurate and diverse classifiers, experimental results show very weak correlations between various diversity measures and combining methods. Effectively n...

Article history: Received 24 January 2009 Accepted 19 July 2010 Available online 27 July 2010

Integrative bargaining, also known as “problem-solving,” “value-creating,” or “win-win” negotiation, is the centerpiece of normative negotiation scholarship and negotiation teaching. It has held this position at least since the publication of “Getting to Yes” by Fisher and Ury in 1981, and perhaps since the publication of “A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations” by Walton and McKersie in 196...

Decision tree algorithm (DT) is a commonly used data mining method for classification and regression. DT repeatedly divides dataset into pure subsets based on impurity measurements such as entropy Gini. Then relatively “pure” partitions consisting of observations with the (almost) same class are obtained. Gini index one representative indices measuring data. However, does not take...

This essay explores the relationship between cognitive biases and decision-making, drawing on relevant literature to support its arguments. Cognitive are systematic errors that individuals make in their thinking [16], while decision-making involves evaluating making choices based available information [13]. It has been estimated 70% of all decisions made by humans affected [10], highlighting si...