Contingent information processing: Contingent and precued classification

Human performance in contingent information-processing tasks.

Theoretical accounts of complex human information-processing behavior have emphasized the utilization of contingencies whereby the processing of some information directs the processing requirements of the remaining sources of uncertainty. The present investigation sought to determine how such flexible processing might be accomplished in a speeded recognition task where the relevancy of a given ...

Contingent information systems development

Situated approaches based on project contingencies are becoming more and more an important research topic for information systems development organizations. The Information Services Organization, which was investigated, has recognized that it should tune its systems development approaches to the specific situation. A model has been developed, dealing with the matching between prevailing conting...

3D shape-contingent processing of luminance gratings

Studies on binocular contrast sensitivity have predominantly focused on flat, two-dimensional (2D) gratings. The underlying hypothesis of such studies is that contrast sensitivity is determined at the early stages of visual processing and is not influenced by the process of three-dimensional (3D) shape recovery. However, it can be argued that contrast detection involves identifying changes in a...

Contingent and Non-Contingent Rewards in the Employment Relationship

Collaboration in Contingent Capacities with Information Asymmetry

We study the optimal contracting problem between two firms collaborating on capacity investment with information asymmetry. Without a contract, system efficiency is lost due to the profit-margin differentials among the firms, demand uncertainty, and information asymmetry. With information asymmetry, we demonstrate that the optimal capacity level is characterized by a newsvendor formula with an ...