When mental health professionals testify in insanity defense cases (more generally, about mental state at the time of the offense [MSO]), opinion testimony is generally solicited after the prefatory question as to whether the forthcoming opinions are held with “reasonable medical certainty” (psychiatrists) or “reasonable scientific certainty” (nonmedical experts). The question and its answer—al...

Conflicts of interest arise between a decision maker and agents who have information pertinent to the problem because of differences in their preferences over outcomes. We investigate how the decision maker can extract the information by distorting the decisions that will be taken. We show that only slight distortions will be necessary when agents’ signals are sufficiently accurate or when the ...

Central MessageIn upcoming issues of the Journal, readers will have access to a number high-impact Invited Expert Opinion articles on important topics in coronary surgery. In This year, surgery ranging from continued debate surrounding multiple arterial grating (MAG) optimal use graft flow measurement. this era rapidly evolving evidence across field artery bypass grafting (CABG), experts guide ...

We present an algorithm functioning as a supervisor module in a multi expert decision making machine. It uses the Bayes theory in order to estimate the biases of individual expert opinions. These are then used to calibrate and conciliate expert opinions to one opinion. We present a framework for simulating decision strategies using expert opinions whose properties are easily modiiable. By using...

In this paper we describe a framework for learning plan knowledge using expert solution traces in domains that include information-gathering tasks. We describe an extension to a special class of hierarchical task networks (HTNs) that can naturally represent information-gathering tasks and partial plans. We show how an existing analytical learning algorithm designed to learn a special form of HT...