incurs the holding cost of inventory and uses it to directly satisfy a retailer’s demand. These contracts, known as “pull ” contracts, have increased in popularity in practice, but have yet to be studied empirically. We investigate three pull contracts in a controlled laboratory environment: a wholesale

Abstract Explanation is an important capability for usable intelligent systems, including intelligent agents and cognitive models embedded within simulations and other decision support systems. Explanation facilities help users understand how and why an intelligent system possesses a given

to outcomes they favored. This finding was affirmed by unobtrusive and implicit measures of perception (e.g., eye tracking, lexical decision tasks) and by experimental procedures demonstrating that participants were aware only of the single (usually favored) interpretation they saw at the time they viewed

This article presents an overview of the theoretical and practical issues associated with the development, analysis, and application of detection algorithms to exploit hyperspectral imaging data. We focus on techniques that exploit spectral information exclusively to make decisions regarding

ABSTRACT Accepting friend requests from strangers in Facebook-like online social networks is known to be a risky behavior. Still, empirical evidence suggests that Facebook users often accept such requests with high rate. As a first step towards technology support of users in their decisions about

When Alex kindly asked me to participate in this conference—a celebration, in part, of his extremely important book, Logics of Hierarchy—he requested that I repurpose my current manuscript on “Empires and International-Relations Theory ” with the aim of contributing to a dialogue/debate about

The experimental results in one-shot two-player games often differ significantly from the Nash equilibrium predictions. A major task of the experimental game-theoretic literature is to provide better tools for explaining behavior in such situations. Prominent in this literature is the concept

on credit availabil-ity (Barry, Baker, and Sanint; Sonka, Dixon, and Jones), they were not explicitly tested in the empirical analyses. This study expands on previous research by testing the relative im-portance of these underlying decision vari-ables for a given loan request. The p¡ objective is to explain

More than forty years ago Ward Edwards (1954) pub-mention: The first concerns the unresolved dialectic lished his seminal paper ''The Theory of Decision Mak-tension between normative and descriptive outlooks. ing'' which marked the birth of Behavioral Decision The origins

policy design and ii) the development of a decision support tool, and its empirical application in regional and local policies. To do so, the expected outputs are based on several analysis phases that consist in: -Understanding the overall picture of the public policy process; 3 -Exploring the complexity