The paper presents an algorithm for reducing false alarms related to changes in arterial blood pressure (ABP) in intensive care unit (ICU) monitoring. The algorithm assesses the ABP signal quality, analyses the relationship between the electrocardiogram and ABP using a fuzzy logic approach and post-processes (accepts or rejects) ABP alarms produced by a commercial monitor. The algorithm was dev...

Olav Benjamin Vassend proposes two solutions to the “interpretive problem” of assigning nonzero probabilities hypotheses that are known be false. He argues verisimilitude interpretation (probability expresses degree belief hypothesis is closest truth) and counterfactual conditional on a false supposition) equivalent. While Vassend’s intuition about these basically correct, technical details his...

In Measurement Based Admission Control (MBAC), the decision of accepting or rejecting a new ow is based on measurements of the current tra c situation. Since MBAC relies on measurements, an in-depth understanding of the measurement error and how it is a ected by the underlying tra c is vital for the design of a robust MBAC. In this work, we study how the measurement error impacts the admission ...

A decision maker faces a new theory of how certain events unfold over time. The theory matters for choices she needs to make, but possibly the theory is a fabrication. We show that there is a test which is guaranteed to pass a true theory, and which is also conservative: A false theory will only pass when adopting it over the decision maker’s initial theory would not cause substantial harm; if ...

Truth telling is one of the most fundamental tenets, not only of forensic psychiatry, but also of life in general. Within bioethics, deontological principles espouse truth telling, and in consequentialist approaches, truth telling is thought to foster respect and autonomy and ultimately to promote the greater social good. Paul Appelbaum writes of it as the first pillar of forensic ethics. Intui...

This paper provides a rationale for advocating pancritical rationalism. First, it argues that the advocate of critical rationalism may accept (but not be internally justified in accepting) that there is ‘justification’ in an externalist sense, specifically that certain procedures can track truth, and suggest that this recognition should inform practice; that one should try to determine which so...

Assumption-based truth maintenance systems have become a powerful and widely used tool in Artificial Intelligence problem solvers. The basic ATMS is restricted to accepting only horn clause justifications. Although various generalizations have been made and proposed to allow an ATMS to handle more general clauses, they have all involved the addition of complex and difficult to integrat~’hyperre...