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For many format-dependent technologies, people have a non-zero payoff for adopting the same technology as their closest friends or colleagues. If two users both adopt product A, they might get a payoff a > 0; if they adopt product B, they get b > 0. But if one adopts A and the other adopts B, they both get a payoff of 0.
In quality management, a nonconformity (sometimes referred to as a non conformance or nonconformance or defect) is a deviation from a specification, a standard, or an expectation. Nonconformities or nonconformance can be classified in seriousness multiple ways, though a typical classification scheme may have three to four levels, including ...
The Gartner hype cycle is a graphical presentation developed, used and branded by the American research, advisory and information technology firm Gartner to represent the maturity, adoption, and social application of specific technologies.
The Y-axis of the diagram shows the business gain to the proprietor of the technology while the X-axis traces its lifetime. The technology life cycle (TLC) describes the commercial gain of a product through the expense of research and development phase, and the financial return during its "vital life". Some technologies, such as steel, paper or ...
Anticonformity (counterconformity) refers to when an individual consciously and deliberately challenges the position or actions of the group. [1] Anticonformity is not merely the absence of conformity. [2] Anticonformity can be a response to certain context and social pressure or expectations. [3]
Non-conformists of the 1930s, an avantgarde movement during the inter-war period in France; Counterculture of the 1960s; Civil disobedience, the active, professed refusal of a citizen to comply with certain laws, demands, or commands of a government
Social construction of technology (SCOT) is a theory within the field of science and technology studies. Advocates of SCOT—that is, social constructivists—argue that technology does not determine human action, but that rather, human action shapes technology. They also argue that the ways a technology is used cannot be understood without ...
The conformal prediction first arose in a collaboration between Gammerman, Vovk, and Vapnik in 1998; [1] this initial version of conformal prediction used what are now called E-values though the version of conformal prediction best known today uses p-values and was proposed a year later by Saunders et al. [7] Vovk, Gammerman, and their students and collaborators, particularly Craig Saunders ...