Modeling human reasoning about meta-information

  • Authors:
  • Sean L. Guarino;Jonathan D. Pfautz;Zach Cox;Emilie Roth

  • Affiliations:
  • Charles River Analytics, 625 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;Charles River Analytics, 625 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;Charles River Analytics, 625 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;Roth Cognitive Engineering, 89 Rawson Street, Brookline, MA 02445, United States

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Information, as well as its qualifiers, or meta-information, forms the basis of human decision-making. Human behavior models (HBMs) therefore require the development of representations of both information and meta-information. However, while existing models and modeling approaches may include computational technologies that support meta-information analysis, they generally neglect its role in human reasoning. Herein, we describe the application of Bayesian belief networks to model how humans calculate, aggregate, and reason about meta-information when making decisions.