While modeling group decision making scenarios, the existence of a central authority is often assumed which is in charge of amalgamating the preferences of a given set of agents with the aim of computing a socially desirable outcome, for instance, maximizing the utilitarian or the egalitarian social welfare. Departing from this classical perspective and inspired by the growing body of literatur...

Abstract In the ongoing debate on relation of cultural differences and national innovativeness this research aims to find out which seven dimensions The Culture Map (communicating, evaluating, leading, deciding, trusting, disagreeing, scheduling) have a significant influence nation’s ability capacity innovate. findings show that aspects as described by clearly nation. Based these findings, tent...

FORR is a general architecture for learning and problem solving. Its design harnesses multiple, disagreeing perspectives on a domain and learns to make intelligent choices from their conflicting advice. FORR has been implemented in Hoyle, a program that learns to play two-person, perfect information board games. A FORR-based program is modular, robust in the face of error or lack of information...

We outline in this paper the main contributions of the XQueC project. XQueC, namely XQuery processor and Compressor, is the first compression tool to seamlessly allow XQuery queries in the compressed domain. It includes a set of data structures, that basically shred the XML document into suitable chunks linked to each other, thus disagreeing with the ’homomorphic’ principle so far adopted in pr...

The controversy arises due to Abraham's and Minkowski's calculations disagreeing as to whether the momentum carried by an electromagnetic field is increased or decreased by the presence of a refractive medium. This paper starts by providing an overview of the life of Abraham and Minkowski. The opinions on the controversy, and solutions for the controversy proposed by physicists over the past ce...

Normative study of probability-agreeing orderings of propositions, much of it rooted in a false but evocative conjecture of Bruno de Finetti, has typically sought to abstract credal rationality claims familiarly made for numerical probabilities. It is now known that some probability-disagreeing orderings, e.g. possibilistic order, syntactically restate probability-agreeing orderings, and so sha...

In this appendix, we will show how the higher order energy potentials can be minimized using graph cuts. Since, graph cuts can efficiently minimize submodular functions, we will transform our higher order energy function (Eq. 9) to a submodular second order energy function. For the case of both αβ-swap and αexpansion move making algorithms, we will explain this transformation and the process of...

Experimental results for the restricted energy loss of pairs created from 1-178 GeV photons in a thin Au target and subsequently passing a CCD detector are presented. It is shown that pairs--when detected close to the creation vertex--suffer a reduced energy loss due to the internal screening of the charges constituting the pair. Furthermore, the ability to measure directly the energy of the pa...

In this paper, we describe a new technique for identifying cultural consensus called Cultural Mixture Modeling (CMM). This technique adopts finite mixture modeling, and introduces a new probabilistic formulation of agreement, which we call the strong consensus model. We use this technique to examine the cultural belief data from Weller (1983; 1984) and social network data from Krackhardt (1987)...