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To better understand human behavior, we need to understand how people make decisions, how people select one of possible actions. This selection is usually based on predicting consequences of different actions, and these predictions are, in their turn, based on the past experience. For example, consequences that occur more frequently in the past are viewed as more probable. However, this is not just about frequency: recent observations are usually given more weight that past ones. Researchers have discovered semi-empirical formulas that describe our predictions reasonably well; these formulas form the basis of the Instance-Based Learning Theory (IBLT). In this paper, we show that these semi-empirical formulas can be derived from the natural idea of scale invariance.
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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants 1623190 (A Model of Change for Preparing a New Generation for Professional Practice in Computer Science), HRD-1834620 and HRD-2034030 (CAHSI Includes), EAR-2225395, and by the AT &T Fellowship in Information Technology.
It was also supported by the program of the development of the Scientific-Educational Mathematical Center of Volga Federal District No. 075-02-2020-1478, and by a grant from the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI).
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Aggarwal, P., Ceberio, M., Kosheleva, O., Kreinovich, V. (2023). How People Make Decisions Based on Prior Experience: Formulas of Instance-Based Learning Theory (IBLT) Follow from Scale Invariance. In: Cohen, K., Ernest, N., Bede, B., Kreinovich, V. (eds) Fuzzy Information Processing 2023. NAFIPS 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 751. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46778-3_29
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