We study the problem of learning from disagreeing demonstrators. We present a model that suggests how it might be possible to design an incentive-compatible mechanism that combines demonstrations from human agents who disagree on the evaluation of the demonstrated task. Apart from comonotonicity of preferences over atomic outcomes, we make no assumptions over the preferences of our demonstrator...

For the Pyrrhonian skeptic, disagreement is an integral part of the skeptical way of inquiry (see Pyrrhonian Outlines I 165).1 The fact that there is undecidable disagreement about a given issue makes the Pyrrhonian skeptic unable to decide that issue, and suspension of judgment emerges. But is suspension of judgment the appropriate response in this case? In this paper, I address two related to...

This paper argues for contextualism about predicates of personal taste and evaluative predicates in general, and offers a proposal of how apparently resilient disagreements are to be explained. The present proposal is complementary to others that have been made in the recent literature. Several authors, for instance (López de Sa, 2008; Sundell, 2011; Huvenes, 2012; Marques and García-Carpintero...

Recently, Metzner gave a parallel algorithm to identify two disagreeing pages in comparing two replicated file copies. We show that this algorithm can also identify three disagreeing pages, if one additional comparison is allowed to resolve some possible ambiguity. We also discuss the relation between the file-copy problem and the group testing problem which has been widely studied.

INTRODUCTION Videoconferencing technology has the potential to increase opportunities for healthcare professionals in rural and remote areas to access continuing professional development. This research used a quantitative approach to an evaluation of the effectiveness of videoconferencing technology in the development of a community of professional development. METHOD In 2008 a videoconferenc...