The objective of this study, conducted at a large financial services organisation in Australia, was to examine the effect of peer timeliness and peer communication predictability on cognition-based trust in virtual workers. The results indicated that neither timeliness nor predictability explained a notable amount of variance in the level of cognition-based trust in virtual workers. Peer timeli...

Define the predictability number α(G) of a tournament T to be the largest supermajority threshhold 1 2 < α ≤ 1 for which T could represent the pairwise voting outcomes from some population of voter preference orders. We establish that the predictability number always exists and is rational. Only acyclic tournaments have predictability 1; the Condorcet voting paradox tournament has predictabilit...

PURPOSE To analyze the predictability of sentences used in the protocol for the assessment of intelligibility of dysarthric speech. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 120 volunteers divided randomly into four groups of 30 individuals.Based on the list of 25 sentences from the protocol, four versions of lists were elaborated. In each version, a different target word was omitted f...

Abstruct-The problem of predicting the next outcome of an individual binary sequence using finite memory, is considered. The finite-state predictability of an infinite sequence is defined as the minimum fraction of prediction errors that can be made by any finite-state (FS) predictor. It is proved that this FS predictability can be attained by universal sequential prediction schemes. Specifical...

Responses are quicker to predictable stimuli than if the time and place of appearance is uncertain. Studies that manipulate target predictability often involve overt cues to speed up response times. However, less is known about whether individuals will exhibit faster response times when target predictability is embedded within the inter-trial relationships. The current research examined the com...

Given a set X of sequences over a finite alphabet, we investigate the following three quantities. (i) The feasible predictability of X is the highest success ratio that a polynomialtime randomized predictor can achieve on all sequences in X. (ii) The deterministic feasible predictability of X is the highest success ratio that a polynomial-time deterministic predictor can achieve on all sequence...

[1] Predictability analysis based on the maximum Lyapunov exponent considers infinitesimal perturbations, which are associated with errors in the smallest fastest-evolving scales of motion. However, these errors become irrelevant for the predictability of larger scale motions. In this study we employ the newly developed Finite Size Lyapunov Exponent (FSLE) analysis to assess predictability of a...

Time-predictability of computing is critical for hard real-time and safety-critical systems. However, currently there is no metric available to quantitatively evaluate time-predictability, a feature crucial to the design of time-predictable processors. This paper first proposes the concept of architectural time-predictability, which separates the time variation due to hardware architectural/mic...

Variations in the predictability of a stressor have pronounced effects on the behavioural and physiological effects of stress in rats. It is reasonable to expect that variations in the predictability of husbandry routines thought to be aversive to animals might have similar effects on stress indices. Similarly, variations in the predictability of positive events, of which feeding is an obvious ...

With the great development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), travel time prediction has attracted the interest of many researchers, and a large number of prediction methods have been developed. However, as an unavoidable topic, the predictability of travel time series is the basic premise for travel time prediction, which has received less attention than the methodology. Based on the...