Abstract: State exploration in directed software model checking is guided using a heuristic function to move states near errors to the front of the search queue. Distance heuristic functions rank ...

Have you ever wondered why certain memories of your partner stand out more than others, shaping your perception of your relationship? This phenomenon can be explained by the availability heuristic, a ...

The last time I went to the doctor, I lived in a different zip code, belonged to a different body-weight category, and was rounding out a different decade. I never consciously swore off health care, ...

Active learning enables prediction models to achieve better performance faster by adaptively querying an oracle for the labels of data points. Sometimes the oracle is a human, for example when a ...

Thank you for your excellent work! It has been incredibly helpful to me. While reviewing your code, I encountered some confusion regarding the design of the "Heuristic function" within the following ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. The availability heuristic (or availability bias) refers to ...