The aim of the present study is to analyze empirical researches on the social resources dimension of occupational status attainment process and relate them to the rational choice approach. The analysis suggests that the existing data on the strength of ties aspect of social resources is insufficient and does not allow any implication concerning rational actor’s behavior. However, the results co...

Objective. Appalachia – historically a culturally and politically unique region of the United States – has been effectively ignored by contemporary political scientists. Using a unique measure of Appalachian residence, this paper analyzes racial attitudes, religion, and Appalachian opposition to the 2008 presidential candidacy of Barack Obama. Methods. I use regression analysis to assess the ex...

This paper studies a class of multi-self decision-making models proposed in economics, psychology, and marketing. In this class, choices arise from the set-dependent aggregation of a collection of utility functions, where the aggregation procedure satisfies some simple properties. We propose a method for characterizing the extent of irrationality in a choice behavior, and use this measure to pr...

In today’s big data era, huge amounts of ranking and choice data are generated on a daily basis, and consequently, many powerful new computational tools for dealing with ranking and choice data have emerged in recent years. This paper highlights recent developments in two areas of ranking and choice modeling that cross traditional boundaries and are of multidisciplinary interest: ranking from p...

The context of use in which users are carrying out their interactive tasks is continuously submitted to an evolution in the user population, the computing platforms used for the tasks, and the physical environment in which users are living. This evolution process raises a need for extending traditional task modelling to support multiple contexts of use simultaneously. To address this problem, t...

This paper contributes to the theory of rational choice under sequential criteria. Following the approach initiated by Manzini and Mariotti (2007) for single-valued choice functions, we characterize choice correspondences that are rational by two sequential criteria under a mild consistency axiom. Rationales ensuring the sequential rationalization are explicitly constructed and a uniquely deter...

Economics, and law and economics, assume that preferences are fixed and not constructed. The assumption is unrealistic, they acknowledge, but is nevertheless useful for generating accurate predictions. They assume as well that having fixed preferences with the other attributes accorded to them under rational choice theory is normatively desirable. Both these assumptions are false. It is critica...

As adversarial environments become more complex, it is increasingly crucial for agents to exploit the mistakes of weaker opponents, particularly in the context of winning tournaments and competitions. In this work, we present a simple post processing technique, which we call Perfect Information Post-Mortem Analysis (PIPMA), that can quickly assess the playing strength of an opponent in certain ...

This paper explains how goal-oriented requirements engineering can be transposed into regulation modelling. It motivates also why this way of modelling regulations is worthwhile for people responsible for preparing regulations. In addition, the paper recounts how the approach has been applied to model ICAO Security Regulation for Civil Aviation in the context of the

This paper deals with the occupational absorption of female immigrants from the former Soviet Union (now the CIS) into Israel’s labor market, and their participation in subsidized vocational training courses. About 43 percent of these immigrants had participated in such a course during their first five years in Israel. A calibration of a dynamic choice model in which immigrants’ decision regard...