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Betting and Belief: Prediction Markets and Attribution of Climate Change

open access: yes, 2016
Despite much scientific evidence, a large fraction of the American public doubts that greenhouse gases are causing global warming. We present a simulation model as a computational test-bed for climate prediction markets. Traders adapt their beliefs about
Gilligan, Jonathan M.   +2 more
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A Copernican View of Health Care Antitrust [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Sage and Hammer use the analogy of Copernican astronomy to suggest that understanding the dramatic change wrought by managed care requires a conceptual reorientation regarding the meaning of competition in health care and its appropriate legal and ...
Hammer, Peter J., Sage, William M.
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Trust-based belief change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
International audienceWe propose a modal logic that supports reasoning about trust-based belief change. The term trust-based belief change refers to belief change that depends on the degree of trust the receiver has in the source of ...
Jiang, Guifei   +2 more
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Belief Change without Compactness

open access: yesCLEI Electronic Journal, 2020
Dealing with dynamics is a vital problem in Artificial Intelligence (AI). An intelligent system should be able to perceive and interact with its environment to perform its tasks satisfactorily. To do so, it must sense external actions that might interfere with its tasks, demanding the agent to self-adapt to the environment dynamics.
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Continuum Belief, Categorical Belief, and Depression Stigma: Correlational Evidence and Outcomes of an Online Intervention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Continuum belief interventions that erode boundaries between “normal” individuals and individuals with psychiatric problems may help to reduce psychiatric stigma, but a number of questions persist.
Thibodeau, Ryan
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Hourglass of constant weight

open access: yes, 2007
In contrast to a still common belief, a steadily flowing hourglass changes its weight in the course of time. We will show that, nevertheless, it is possible to construct hourglasses that do not change their weight.Comment: 2 pages, 1 ...
Becker, Volker, Poeschel, Thorsten
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The Field [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Life is a battlefield onto which we are thrown at birth, with only fate and fortune settling upon where we land. Wherever we land, whether it's on the front lines or surrounded by a network of defenses, we are all asking the same question: why are we ...
Crowther, Thomas G. W.
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Belief change without compactness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
One of the main goals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to build rational agents that are capable of taking rational decisions autonomously. For this, it is essential to devise mechanisms to properly represent knowledge, and reason about the knowledge that an agent has about the world.
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Modeling Belief in Dynamic Systems, Part II: Revision and Update

open access: yes, 1999
The study of belief change has been an active area in philosophy and AI. In recent years two special cases of belief change, belief revision and belief update, have been studied in detail.
Friedman, N, Halpern, J. Y.
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