Observing Cyclists’ Mobility Patterns for better Decisions

Observing evidence accumulation during multi-alternative decisions

Most decision-making research has focused on choices between two alternatives. For choices between many alternatives, the primary result is Hick’s Law—that mean response time increases logarithmically with the number of alternatives. Various models for this result exist within specific paradigms, and there are some more general theoretical results, but none of those have been tested stringently...

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(Multi-) Modeling Enterprises for Better Decisions

Enterprises typically depend on past experience and human expertise for responding to changes. This is no longer cost effective in the increasingly dynamic world of enterprises. Enterprise models are required that describe the enterprise as well as prescribe courses of action in the face of change. Owing to complexity of enterprises, multiple models need to be employed when addressing specific ...

Training Compilers for Better Inlining Decisions

Optimizing implementations for object-oriented languages rely on aggressive inlining to achieve good performance. Sometimes the compiler is over-eager in its quest for good performance, however, and inlines too many methods that merely increase compile time and consume extra compiled code space with little benefit in run-time performance. We have designed and implemented a new approach to inlin...

eFarm: A Tool for Better Observing Agricultural Land Systems

Currently, observations of an agricultural land system (ALS) largely depend on remotely-sensed images, focusing on its biophysical features. While social surveys capture the socioeconomic features, the information was inadequately integrated with the biophysical features of an ALS and the applications are limited due to the issues of cost and efficiency to carry out such detailed and comparable...