The Availability Heuristic: A Redux

Solving a Joint Availability-Redundancy Optimization Model with Multi-State Components with Meta-Heuristic

This paper has been worked on a RAP with multi-state components and the performance rate of each component working state may increase by spending technical and organizational activities costs. Whereas RAP belongs to Np-Hard problems, we used Genetic algorithm (GA) and simulated annealing (SA) and for solving the presented problem and calculating system reliability universal generating function ...

The Availability Heuristic in a Symbolic-Connectionist Architecture

Theories of how cognitive biases arise rely on heuristics that influence attention and reasoning. These heuristics serve as a post-hoc description of how attention and reasoning is weighted to produce the patterns of deviation in judgment. We are unaware of any process account of how these heuristics arise. In this article, we present several simulations of classic studies of the availability h...

Availability: A Heuristic for Judging Frequency and Probability122

This paper explores a judgmental heuristic in which a person evaluates the frequency of classes or the probability of events by availability, i.e., by the ease with which relevant instances come to mind. In general, availability is correlated with ecological frequency, but it is also affected by other factors. Consequently, the reliance on the availability heuristic leads to systematic biases. ...

Maximizing Availability: A Commitment Heuristic for Oversubscribed Scheduling Problems

In this paper we reconsider a “task-swapping” procedure for improving schedules in the face of resource oversubscription. Prior work has demonstrated that use of a retraction heuristic to determine which tasks to rearrange in an existing schedule allows for addition of new tasks which would otherwise fail to be scheduled. The existing task swap procedure employs a variable ordering heuristic fo...

Media Exposure, Juror Decision-Making, and the Availability Heuristic