Markov logic is a rich language that allows one to specify a knowledge base (called a Markov logic network or MLN) as a set of weighted first-order logic formulas, and to define a probability distribution over truth assignments to ground atoms using this knowledge base. Unless the knowledge base satisfies certain special conditions, the weight of a formula cannot be related to the probability o...

This paper focuses on the human's perception of information quality and describes the results of a study on how accuracy is estimated for data shown through a visual representation. The subjective assessment of quality appears to be non-linear in relation to the actual degree of errors in the dataset. Users are sometimes unable to distinguish between datasets with different quality, and their a...

We present SIDE, a tool for Subjective and Interactive Visual Data Exploration, which lets users explore high dimensional data via subjectively informative 2D data visualizations. Many existing visual analytics tools are either restricted to specific problems and domains or they aim to find visualizations that align with user’s belief about the data. In contrast, our generic tool computes data ...

Recent advances in high dynamic range (HDR) capture and display technologies have attracted a lot of interest from scientific, professional, and artistic communities. As in any technology, the evaluation of HDR systems in terms of quality of experience is essential. Subjective evaluations are time consuming and expensive, and thus objective quality assessment tools are needed as well. In this p...

Decision makers (DMs) face different levels of uncertainty throughout the decision making process. In particular, natural language is generally subjective or ambiguous when used to express perceptions and judgments. The aim of this paper is to extend the VIKOR method and develop a methodology for solving multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems with stochastic data. The weights of the sto...

The Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity (1990–2010) [Schmidhuber, J.: Formal theory of creativity, fun, and intrinsic motivation (1990–2010). IEEE Trans. Auton. Mental Dev. 2(3), 230–247 (2010b)] describes principles of a curious and creative agent that never stops generating nontrivial and novel and surprising tasks and data. Two modules are needed: a data encoder and a data creator. The forme...

Believability is one of the major information quality dimensions that plays a role in the operational fitness and sound decision making. This paper presents an empirical evaluation of how people perceive believability of data shown through visual and textual representations. Integration of text and images is also studied with respect to believability. The subjective assessment exhibits variatio...

background : the importance of consuming fruits and vegetables (f&v;) in prevention of chronic diseases is known. childhood play an important role in formation of healthy eating habits. the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of education, with application of the theory of planned behavior, on improvement of f&v; consumption. methods : in this quasi-experimental study, 184 fourth, f...

background: the aims of this study were to evaluate the employees' subjective assessments of different aspects of lighting condition as well as task area illuminance in manufacturing plants. methods: this field study was conducted between march and may 2013 , in three packing plants (saveh, central iran). data were collected by questionnaire and measurement of the task area illuminance levels. ...

abstract background: happiness is a drive and constructive force of life. a person feels wellbeing under different effective factors. religious dogmatism that has an influence on the entire world is one of the depreciatory factors of happiness or wellbeing. the current study decided to analyze the relation between dogmatism and wellbeing, and according to a model, answer the following question:...