The importance of categorical reasoning in human cognition is well-established in psychology and cognitive science, and it is generally acknowledged that one of the most important functions of categorization is to facilitate prediction. This paper provides a model of optimal categorization. In...

Part I. Value Creation and Managing Intellectual Property in the Life Science Industry -- Chapter 1. Value Creation, Valuation and Business Models in the Pharmaceutical Sector -- Chapter 2. Alternative Licensing Strategies: A Piecewise Deterministic Differential Game -- Chapter 3. Partnership...

This paper focuses on the problem of monotone decision trees from the point of view of the multicriteria decision aid methodology (MCDA). By taking into account the preferences of the decision maker, an attempt is made to bring closer similar research within machine learning and MCDA. The paper...

Centrality measures play a key role in network analysis. This paper studies the extent to which these measures share a common structure. In contrast with prior work, I take an ordinal approach, considering preorders on the vertex set of a graph that satisfy an intuitive axiom called recursive...