Time for evidence based rewards?

Evidence-based Support for Rewards Intermediate

Time discounting for primary rewards.

Previous research, involving monetary rewards, found that limbic reward-related areas show greater activity when an intertemporal choice includes an immediate reward than when the options include only delayed rewards. In contrast, the lateral prefrontal and parietal cortex (areas commonly associated with deliberative cognitive processes, including future planning) respond to intertemporal choic...

Time discounting for primary and monetary rewards

There is considerable evidence indicating individuals are highly impatient. In particular, they exhibit higher discount rates in the short run than in the long run (Frederick et al., 2002). This result has significant implications for how we model intertemporal decisionmaking (Strotz, 1955–56). In most of the experiments, short-term discount rates are measured using monetary rewards delivered a...

Time for evidence-based cytology

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a fashionable and an extremely hot topic for clinicians, patients and the health service planners. Evidence-based cytology (EBC) is an offshoot of EBM. The EBC is concerned with generating a reproducible, high quality and clinically relevant test result in the field of cytology. This is a rapidly evolving area with high practical importance. EBC is based entirel...

Discrete-Time Rewards Model-Checked

This paper presents a model-checking approach for analyzing discrete-time Markov reward models. For this purpose, the temporal logic probabilistic CTL is extended with reward constraints. This allows to formulate complex measures – involving expected as well as accumulated rewards – in a precise and succinct way. Algorithms to efficiently analyze such formulae are introduced. The approach is il...