Making decisions with children

Making Decisions with Belief Functions

A primary motivation for reasoning under uncertainty is to derive decisions in the face of inconclusive evi­ dence. However, Shafer's theory of belief functions, which explicitly represents the underconstrained na­ ture of many reasoning problems, lacks a formal pro­ cedure for making decisions. Clearly, when sufficient information is not available, no theory can prescribe actions without makin...

Title: Making Decisions with a Continuous Mind

Making Decisions with Unknown Sensory Reliability

To make fast and accurate behavioral choices, we need to integrate noisy sensory input, take prior knowledge into account, and adjust our decision criteria. It was shown previously that in two-alternative-forced-choice tasks, optimal decision making can be formalized in the framework of a sequential probability ratio test and is then equivalent to a diffusion model. However, this analogy hides ...

Making Good Decisions Quickly

Several disciplines, including artificial intelligence, operations research and many others, study how to make good decisions. In this overview article, we argue that the key to making progress in our research area is to combine their ideas, which often requires serious technical advances to reconcile their different assumptions and methods in a way that results in synergy among them. To illust...

Making Mastitis Treatment Decisions

Therapeutic efficacy of mastitis can result in frustrating clinical outcomes, depending on the causative pathogen, the severity and duration of infection, and expectations of the dairy producer. In herds that have controlled contagious mastitis, costs incurred from clinical mastitis likely account for the largest proportion of total herd mastitis costs, and in some instances, a majority of thes...