TY - GEN
T1 - Benefits of collaboration and diversity in teams of categorically-thinking decision makers
AU - Rhim, Joong Bum
AU - Varshney, Lav R.
AU - Goyal, Vivek K.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Certain information-processing limitations in hypothesis testing can be modeled as quantization of prior probabilities. While quantization hurts performance, a team of decision makers can minimize their performance loss by adopting diverse quantizers and collaborating on the design of their decision rules. In this paper, the benefits of diversity and collaboration in binary hypothesis testing are discussed. A set of N diverse K-level quantizers used by a team of N collaborating decision makers is as powerful as a single (N(K - 1) + 1)-level quantizer used by them all. If the decision makers do not collaborate, a set of diverse quantizers is less powerful, but it is still better than a set of identical quantizers.
AB - Certain information-processing limitations in hypothesis testing can be modeled as quantization of prior probabilities. While quantization hurts performance, a team of decision makers can minimize their performance loss by adopting diverse quantizers and collaborating on the design of their decision rules. In this paper, the benefits of diversity and collaboration in binary hypothesis testing are discussed. A set of N diverse K-level quantizers used by a team of N collaborating decision makers is as powerful as a single (N(K - 1) + 1)-level quantizer used by them all. If the decision makers do not collaborate, a set of diverse quantizers is less powerful, but it is still better than a set of identical quantizers.
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U2 - 10.1109/SAM.2012.6250461
DO - 10.1109/SAM.2012.6250461
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84865237069
SN - 9781467310710
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop
SP - 181
EP - 184
BT - 2012 IEEE 7th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, SAM 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE 7th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, SAM 2012
Y2 - 17 June 2012 through 20 June 2012
ER -