Categorical decision making by people, committees, and crowds

2011 Information Theory and Applications Workshop, ITA 2011 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 425-434

  Varshney, Lav R ^a   Rhim, Joong Bum ^b   Varshney, Kush R ^a   Goyal, Vivek K ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN HYPOTHESIS; COGNITIVE LIMITATIONS; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; CROWDSOURCING; DECISION PROBLEMS; ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS; FALSE ALARMS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING; MAJORITY VOTE; MATHEMATICAL THEORY; MINIMUM BAYES RISK; MISSED DETECTIONS; NASH EQUILIBRIA; OPTIMAL DECISION-RULE; PARETO-OPTIMAL; PRIOR INFORMATION; QUANTIZER DESIGN;

DECISION MAKING; ERROR DETECTION; INFORMATION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 79955778702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITA.2011.5743615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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