We describe a prediction method called “Attractivity Weighting” (AW). In the case of cue-based paired comparison tasks, AW predicts a weighted average of the cue values of the most successful cues. In many situations, AW’s prediction is based on the cue value of the most successful cue, resulting in behavior similar to Take-the-Best (TTB). Unlike TTB, AW has a desirable characteristic called “a...

By examining Dainton's account of the temporality of consciousness in the context of long-running debates about the specious present and time consciousness in both the Jamesian and the phenomenological traditions, I raise critical objections to his overlap model. Dainton's interpretations of Broad and Husserl are both insightful and problematic. In addition, there are unresolved problems in Dai...

David Chalmers (2010) argues for an acquaintance theory of the justification of direct phenomenal beliefs. A central part of this defense is the claim that direct phenomenal beliefs are cognitively significant. I argue against this. Direct phenomenal beliefs are justified within the specious present, and yet the resources available with the present ‘now’ are so impoverished that it barely const...

one of the most important questions in islamic banking system is about the best method for calculating the interest rate of loans and deposits. this paper compares two methods : time- value method and economic value- added method and tries to answer this question that, based on the information gathered from the financial statements of a sample of the accepted firms in the iranian exchange marke...

project scheduling   net present value   we consider a project scheduling problem with permitted tardiness and discrete time/resource trade-offs under maximum net present value objective. in this problem, a project consists of a set of sequential phases such that each phase contains one or more sub-projects including activities interrelated by finish-start-type precedence relations with a time ...

We study the Adjusted Winner procedure of Brams and Taylor for dividing goods fairly between two individuals, and prove several results. In particular we show rigorously that as the differences between the two individuals become more acute they both benefit. We introduce a geometric approach which allows us to give alternate proofs of some of the Brams-Taylor results and which gives some hope f...