This chapter presents item response modeling techniques in the Mplus program (Muthén & Muthén, 2012) through the analysis of an example with three features common in behavioral science applications: multiple latent variable dimensions, multilevel data, and multiple timepoints. The dimensionality of a measurement instrument with categorical items is investigated using exploratory factor analysis...

Multi-label classification assigns a data item to one or several classes. This problem of multiple labels arises in fields like acoustic and visual scene analysis, news reports and medical diagnosis. In a generative framework, data with multiple labels can be interpreted as additive mixtures of emissions of the individual sources. We propose a deconvolution approach to estimate the individual c...

This paper compares two prominent approaches in artificial language evolution: Iterated Learning and Social Coordination. More specifically, the paper contrasts experiments in both approaches on how populations of artificial agents can autonomously develop a grammatical case marking system for indicating event structure (i.e. ‘who does what to whom’). The comparison demonstrates that only the S...

Total Time. By day five, the average total time was 805 ms for 1HR and 682 ms for 2HS, reduced from 932 ms and 823 ms respectively on day one. Menu technique (p = .005) and day (p = .009) had significant effects on total time, but there was no interaction effect (F4,16 = 0.308, p = .869). Reaction Time. By day five, the average reaction time was 590 ms for 1HR and 533 ms for 2HS, reduced from 5...

Within the discussion on European governance and constitutional reforms of the EU polity the socalled "open method of coordination" (OMC) has gained much attention as a procedure that occupies an intermediary place between intergovernmental cooperation and supranational legislation. In this paper we argue that the OMC is even likely to turn into a new concept of deepening integration within a m...

The supply chain network design not only assists organizations production process (e.g.,plan, control and execute a product’s flow) but also ensure what is the growing need for companies in a longterm. This paper develops a three-echelon supply chain network problem including multiple plants, multiple distributors, and multiple retailers with amulti-mode demand satisfaction policy inside of pro...