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COGSCI
2006
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Decision Making and Confidence Given Uncertain Advice
We study human decision making in a simple forced-choice task that manipulates the frequency and accuracy of available information. Empirically, we find that people make decisions...
Michael D. Lee, Matthew J. Dry
CORR
2006
Springer
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A Case for Peering of Content Delivery Networks
: The proliferation of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) reveals that existing content networks are owned and operated by individual companies. As a consequence, closed delivery netw...
Rajkumar Buyya, Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan, James Bro...
ENTCS
2006
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Monadic Second-Order Logic and Transitive Closure Logics over Trees
Model theoretic syntax is concerned with studying the descriptive complexity of grammar formalisms for natural languages by defining their derivation trees in suitable logical for...
Hans-Jörg Tiede, Stephan Kepser
FS
2006
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Utility maximization and risk minimization in life and pension insurance
We study the problem of finding optimal strategies for a life insurance company or pension fund that acts on behalf of an insured so as to maximize the expected utility (in a gene...
Peter Holm Nielsen
IJWET
2008
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Web service workflow selection using system and network QoS constraints
: Web services serve as a leading technology platform for web-based data-centric environments providing flexibility of loose coupling, message-based communication. Interest in more...
Yannis Panagis, Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, Eva...