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... avoid intransitivity of rational theory choice would be to introduce some kind of ‘metaevaluation’ of the criteria of theory ...is better than another one, if it does a ... See full document

... or better compared to its competitors, consumers have begun to face an important problem: the increased uncertainty about various products ...rather than a case by case basis (Ainslie & Rossi, ... See full document

... First, the basic theory accounts only for choice at a given time – that is, the model is static. In contrast, a dynamic (or inter- temporal) model allows the agent to plan as well as make choices in the ... See full document

... portfolio choice requires dynamic program- ming, or numerical ...portfolio choice provides useful understanding of strategic asset allocation in terms of hedging and speculative demands in the presence of ... See full document

... transformations of the u and the errors, andf therefore contain cardinal information. One advantage of expressing rationality in parametric form is that makes it easy to study how the probability of a given alternative ... See full document

... risky choice theory that statistically fits group decisions significantly better than alternative theories, and if there are significant differences between individual and group ... See full document

... Keynesian theory of ...satisfies better the secondary need which is assumed to be taste, then y will come into the picture when the primary need is ... See full document

... Syntactically, the online probabilistic Turing machine will look the same as the nondeterministic machine. The dierence is at the denition of the accepted language. The criterion of an input to be accepted by a regular ... See full document

... So far we have spoken of Turing machines as special purpose devices. Thus they may have seemed more like silicon chips than general-purpose computers. Our belief that Turing machines can compute everything that is ... See full document

... Why did I take the time to prepare these lecture notes? I have been teaching this course (or courses very much like it) at the undergraduate and graduate level since 1985. Every time I teach it I take the time to improve ... See full document

... SUMMARY OF MATHEMATICAL TERMS A finite set of objects called symbols An input to a function A relation whose domain is a set of pairs An operation on Boolean values The values TRUE or FA[r] ... See full document

... more than one symbol, the respective complexity measures are related by a constant factor, whereas between and any other alphabet consisting of more than one symbol the difference in complexity can be ... See full document

... The dinner party problem also has an interesting story. As in the case of multiplication, there is an obvious and simple inefficient algorithm: try all possible subsets of the n people from the largest to the smallest, ... See full document

... the theory of computing: It has been postulated that a distribution is pseudorandom if it cannot be told apart from the uniform distri- bution by any ecient ...complex than the generator ...complex ... See full document

... number theory (arithmetic operations, greatest common divisor, modular arithmetic) linear algebra (Gaussian elimination) and graph ...graph theory; we’ll restrict ourselves to a few that will be needed ... See full document

... The number of steps of the Random Access Machine is not the best measure of the \timeit takes to work". Due to the fact that the instructions operate on natural numbers of arbitrary size, tricks are possible that are ... See full document

... the choice of the predicate ~Pr(x), and establishes a more general claim (which, although not stated by Gödel, can be reasonably attributed to him), usually referred to as 'the self-reference ... See full document

... major choice, taken by the theory of computation at large, is the choice of a model of computation and corresponding complexity measures and ...The choice, which is currently taken for ... See full document

... this theory, while the books [Rog87, HMU01, Koz97] go into a bit more ...automata theory, which is another area of the theory of computation not discussed in the current ... See full document

... integers represented in the decimal form: Starting from the least significant place, add the corresponding digits and carry forward to the next place if needed, to obtain the sum. Note that an algorithm is a recipe of ... See full document