Simplicity in the Faulkner construction

Methodological Simplicity in Expert System Construction

Probabilistic rules and their variants have recently supported several successful applications of expert systems, in spite of the difficulty of committing informants to particular conditional probabilities or “certainty factors,” and in spite of the experimentally observed insensitivity of system performance to perturbations of the chosen values. Here we survey recent developments concerning re...

William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition (review)

Methodological Simplicity in Expert System Construction: The Case of Judgments and Reasoned Assumptions

P r o b a b i l i s t i c rules a n d their v a r i a n t s have recent ly s u p p o r t e d severa l success fu l a p p l i c a t i o n s of e x p e r t s y s t e m s , in s p i t e of the difficulty of c o m m i t t i n g i n f o r m a n t s to p a r t i c u l a r condi t iona l p robab i l i t i e s or " cer ta in ty f a c t o r s , " a n d in sp i t e of t h e exper imenta l ly obse rved in...

On the Constructions of Tits and Faulkner: an Isomorphism Theorem

Classification theory guarantees the existence of an isomorphism between any two E8’s, at least over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. The purpose of this paper is to construct for any Jordan algebra J of degree 3 over a field Φ of characteristic ≠ 2,3 an explicit isomorphism between the algebra obtained from J by Faulkner’s construction and the algebra obtained from the split ...

Simplicity in the tax system