For More Advanced and Sophisticated Class

More sophisticated predictors

Comment: Warning malingerers produces more sophisticated malingering.

Warning persons that attempts to malinger on neuropsychological testing will be detected is not an effective way of reducing malingering behavior. Rather, the literature on coaching consistently shows that malingerers who are warned of the presence of symptom validity assessment techniques are able to feign deficits in a less exaggerated and more believable fashion and therefore elude detection...

Sophisticated Players and Sophisticated Agents

A sophisticated player is an individual who takes the action of the opponents, in a strategic situation, as determined by decision of rational opponents, and acts accordingly. A sophisticated agent is rational in the choice of his action, but ignores the fact that he is part of a strategic situation. We discuss a notion of equilibrium with sophisticated agents, we provide conditions for its exi...

Concerning the need for more sophisticated animal models in sensory behavioral toxicology.

It is necessary but not sufficient to develop laboratory animal models in sensory behavioral toxicology for screening toxic substances and for the analysis of sensory impairment at threshold levels of stimulation. It is important to develop more thorough and quantitative tests of impairment which in their greater complexity more accurately reflect the conditions and environmental demands of day...

Advanced Metrics for Class-Driven Similarity Search

This paper presents two metrics for the Nearest Neighbor Classifier that share the property of being adapted, i.e. learned, on a set of data. Both metrics can be used for similarity search when the retrieval critically depends on a symbolic target feature. The first one is called Local Asymmetrically Weighted Similarity Metric (LASM) and exploits reinforcement learning techniques for the comput...