This paper presents a non-numeric approach to uncertain reasoning by extending the incidence calculus. In parallel to the well known fuzzy, belief/plausibility, probability, and necessity/possibility measures, the corresponding classes of non-numeric functions are examined. A method of constructing non-numeric functions is discussed using the notion of compatibility relations. Non-numeric funct...

We propose an e cient way of constructing regression trees in order to predict the objective numeric attribute values of given tuples. A regression tree is a rooted binary tree such that each internal node contains a test, which can be expressed as an RDB query, for splitting tuples into two disjoint classes and passing data in each class down to the left or right subtree. The mean of the objec...

How do consumers determine the value of combinations that include both highand lowpriced products? Prior findings suggest that value judgments are typically additive, such that when each bundled item has positive utility, the overall value of the bundle is at least as great as the value of any individual item it contains. In contrast, this research documents that combining items in different pr...

Digital technology encourages hope of searching across and between different media forms (text, sound, image, numeric data). We describe topic searches in two different media: text files and socio-economic numeric databases and also for transverse searching, whereby retrieved text is used to find topically related numeric data and vice versa. Direct transverse searching across different media i...

Many real-world problems can be expressed in terms of states and actions that modify the world to reach a certain goal. Such problems can be solved by automated planning. Numeric planning supports numeric quantities such as resources or physical properties in addition to the propositional variables from classical planning. We approach numeric planning with heuristic search and introduce adaptat...

We introduce a new method for attribute value selection, which is driven by the minimum description length principle. We demonstrate the viability of the approach on the Wisconsin breast cancer data set, show a working exa mple and evaluate the approach against earlier systems. Comparisons on different domains are also given. Empirical results show that our approach consistently outperforms com...

BACKGROUND Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with embedded clinical decision support (CDS) can significantly reduce certain types of prescription error. However, prescription errors still occur. Various factors such as the numeric inputting methods in human computer interaction (HCI) produce different error rates and types, but has received relatively little attention. OBJECTIV...

In common models of project time-cost trade-off, time value of money is not considered and often time-cost trade-off is performed without considering time value of money. In real world, pass of time causes decrease in money value. Therefore, taking into account the time value of money in time-cost trade-off problem makes this problem is becoming more and more realistic. In this paper, we study ...

While scientific programmers typically make heavy use of a programming language’s native numeric data types, such practice has been a common source of errors: it obscures the diverse intentions (e.g., distances, masses, energies, momenta, etc.) that any such purely numeric value could represent. Limitations in programming language expressiveness and compiler technology have historically made it...

The goals of this study were to assess the primary effects of the use of cognitive strategy and a combined measure of numeric ability on recall of every-day numeric information (i.e. prices). Additionally, numeric ability was assessed as a moderator in the relationship between strategy use and memory for prices. One hundred participants memorized twelve prices that varied from 1 to 6 digits; th...