ASSUMED COMMITMENT

COS 522: Assumed Knowledge

This document includes some mathematical notions I will assume. Most of these are taught in a discrete math class, and in any case are not complicated and easy to pick up. You can read it at your own pace — it will take a few weeks until we’ll get to use all of this stuff. You do not have to do the exercises, and in any case don’t need to submit them. If you feel you’d like more clarifications ...

Analysing the Assumed Benefits of Software Requirements

Often during the requirements engineering (RE) process, the value of a requirement is assessed, e.g., in requirement prioritisation, release planning, and trade-off analysis. In order to support these activities, this research evaluates Goal Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) methods for the description of a requirement’s value. Specifically, we investigate the goal-to-goal contribution r...

Bayesian Q-learning with Assumed Density Filtering

While off-policy temporal difference methods have been broadly used in reinforcement learning due to their efficiency and simple implementation, their Bayesian counterparts have been relatively understudied. This is mainly because the max operator in the Bellman optimality equation brings non-linearity and inconsistent distributions over value function. In this paper, we introduce a new Bayesia...

Original Loop Bounds Loop Bounds Assumed Constant

Reacting to an Assumed Situation vs. Conforming to an Assumed Reaction: The Role of Perceived Speaker Attitude in Vicarious Dissonance

Witnessing an ingroup member acting against his or her belief can lead individuals who identify with that group to change their own attitude in the direction of that counterattitudinal behavior. Two studies demonstrate this vicarious dissonance effect among high ingroup identifiers and show that this attitude change is not attributable to conformity to a perceived change in speaker attitude. St...