How to resolve doxastic disagreement

Using values and theories to resolve disagreement in law

In this paper we describe a novel approach to reasoning with cases and precedents. The approach is intended to address two main problems. First we find that current case based reasoning systems tend to offer relatively little support in determining the outcome of a case. They either present a list of cases which may inform, but cannot determine, the outcome, or else, as in HYPO and its successo...

How to Resolve IP Aliases

To construct accurate Internet maps, traceroute-based mapping efforts must group interface IP addresses into routers, a task known as alias resolution. In this paper, we introduce two new alias resolution approaches based on inference to handle addresses that cannot be resolved by existing methods based on probe measurements. The first decodes the DNS names assigned by the ISP to recognize the ...

Misconceptions in students: how to resolve them?

How Much Would You Pay to Resolve

Though risk aversion and the elasticity of intertemporal substitution have been the subjects of careful scrutiny when calibrating preferences, the long-run risks literature as well as the broader literature using recursive utility to address asset pricing puzzles have ignored the full implications of their parameter specifications. Recursive utility implies that the temporal resolution of risk ...

A Diagnostic to Identify and Resolve Different Sources of Disagreement in Collaborative Requirements Engineering

When negotiating requirements for a new system many stakeholders need to be involved and several key tradeoffs will emerge (Boehm, Gruenbacher, & Briggs, 2001). To build consensus among key stakeholders on the requirements for the system and the priority among them, facilitators are confronted with disagreements that originate in different sources ranging from misunderstandings to truly conflic...