Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; About the Book; About the Series; Contents; Figures and Tables; About the Editors and Authors; Introduction; 1 Knowledge Representation in Cognitive Psychology; Abstract; Introduction; Human Information Processing; The Representation of Knowledge; The Origins of Representation Theories; Current Approaches; The Impact on Formal Theorization; The Impact on Experimentation; The Collins and Quillian Experiment; Assumptions Underlying the Experimentation; What Were the Real Revresentations?; The Identifiability Problem
A Formal Approaah to the Identifiability ProblemA Conarete Example; The Brain as a Black Box; Where Do We Go From Here?; Conclusion; References; 2 Stochastic Differential Equations for the Social Sciences; Abstract; Introduction; The Itô Formulation; Linear Stochastic Systems; Stochastic Epidemic Theory; The Stochastic Cusp Catastrophe; Cusp Statistics; Conclusion; References; 3 Possibility Theory and Soft Data Analysis; Abstract; Introduction; Basic Properties of Possibility Distributions; Possibility Measure; Joint, Marginal and Conditional Possibility Distributions; The Extension Principle
Translation Rules and Meaning RepresentationTranslation Rules; Inference from Soft Data and Mathematical Programming; Rules of Inference; Examples of Inference from Soft Data; Evidence, Certainty and Possibility; Concluding Remark; References and Related Papers; 4 Multicriterion Decision Analysis; Abstract; Introduction; Need for Multidimensional Utility Measures; Handling Multidimensional Utility; Hard and Soft Data; Appendix: Non-Monetary Factorsin Accounting; Introduction; Background; Non-Monetary Data Issues; Additional Issues in the Public Sector or the Not-For-Profit Organization
Summary
References; References; 5 Reflections on and Criticisms of a Highly Political Multiattribute Utility Analysis; Abstract; Introduction; Method; Scenario; Setting; References
Notes
Originally published 1981 by Westview Press
"Based on two symposia which were held at the 1979 AAAS National annual meeting in Houston, Texas, January 3-8."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed July 26, 2019)
