Motivated explanation

Motivated explanation

Although motivation is a well-established field of study in its own right, and has been fruitfully studied in connection with attribution theory and belief formation under the heading of "motivated thinking," its powerful and pervasive influence on specifically explanatory processes is less well explored. Where one has a strong motivation to understand some event correctly, one is thereby motiv...

A simple probabilistic explanation of term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) heuristic (and variations motivated by this explanation)

Motivated Agents Motivated Agents

We 1 present a method for controlling autonomous agents in un-predictible environments. For this, the agent's architecture of Hayes-Roth et al. (1995) is extended regarding spontaneous goal generation and goal selection. This method seems psychologically plausible under the term motivation. In addition, its implementation exhibits attractive real-time characteristics, relating environment, agen...

Theoretical Explanation for the Empirical Probability of Detection POD Curve A Neural Network Motivated Approach

For non destructive testing of aerospace structures it is extremely important to know how the probability of detecting a fault depends on its size Recently an empirical formula has been found which described this dependence In this paper we provide the theoretical justi cation for this formula by using methods motivated by the neural network approach I Formulation of the Problem For non destruc...

Theoretical Explanation for the Empirical Probability of Detection ( POD ) Curve : A Neural Network - Motivated

|For non-destructive testing of aerospace structures, it is extremely important to know how the probability of detecting a fault depends on its size. Recently, an empirical formula has been found which described this dependence. In this paper, we provide the theoretical justiication for this formula by using methods motivated by the neural network approach. I. Formulation of the Problem For non...