Using students’ predicted and unpredicted delays in midterm preparation as measures of time-inconsistency and self-awareness, this paper shows that time-inconsistent behavior is associated with inferior class performance. Most students showed some time-inconsistency. Most were at least partially aware of their time-inconsistency. Despite full awareness, the sophisticates still under-performed i...

For a social scientist of a particular kind, the first thought that springs to mind in association with ‘inconsistency’ is Arrow’s famous impossibility theorem. The association is a natural one because, in the original formulation, inconsistency plays a double role in Arrow’s theorem. At the first level, the requirement that any aggregate ‘community’ ranking of social states be transitive is ak...

With the increased popularity of replica-based services in distributed systems such as the Grid, consistency control among replicas becomes more and more important. To this end, IDF (Inconsistency Detection Framework), a two-layered overlay-based architecture, has been proposed as a new way to solve this problem—instead of enforcing a predefined protocol, IDF detects inconsistency in a timely m...