Advice on exercise.

An ontology-based advice system for health and exercise

This paper presents a health advice system using an ontology and inference rules. The ontology consists of the various concepts and their relationships about health and exercise. By combining the ontology and inference rules to derive health advices, recommended and/or nonrecommended exercises are inferred and presented to the users.

Advice on Modelling TAG

Advice on Abductive Logic

It’s not usual for citations or footnotes to be included in abstracts. One of our purposes here is to expose something of the elementary logical structure of abductive reasoning, and to do so in a way that helps orient theorists to the various tasks that a logic of abduction should concern itself with. We are mindful of criticisms that have been levelled against the very idea of a logic of abdu...

Leaning on advice

to save its rainforests from destruction. This idea was triggered by a very specific moral dilemma. The country’s largest oil find is located underneath the Yasuni National Park, home to a unique biodiversity and several Native American tribes living as huntergatherers in isolation. Oil companies are lobbying the government in Quito for licences to start drilling, which would of course mean dev...

Weighing Advice 1 Running head: WEIGHING ADVICE Effects of Task Difficulty on Use of Advice

Although prior studies have found that people generally underweight advice from others, such discounting of advice is not universal. Two studies examined the impact of task difficulty on the use of advice. In both studies, the strategy participants used to weigh advice varied with task difficulty even when it should have not. In particular, the results show that people overweight advice on diff...