assignment-2018-3

3rd Assignment

Intro

This program Simplifies an Evaluation Norm.

Evaluation Norms

With a dono and the recipient, we want to illustrate the ways in which the donor's reputation will be affected by the choice to make a transaction with the recipient.

We have four factors to consider:

• Choosing the donor, to help or not to help.
• The donor's current reputation, good or bad.
• The recipient's current reputation, good or bad.
• The previous reputation of the recipient, good or bad.

The references can be assigned to a binary variable as follows:

• If the donor choose to help A=1, and if not A=0.
• If the donor has good current reputation B=1, and if not B=0.
• If the recipient has good current reputation C=1, and if not C=0.
• If the recipient has good previous reputation D=1, and if not D=0.

Thus we have 16 different combinations of A, B, C, D describing a transaction between donor and recipient, as shown in the following figure.

In any combination now, we can give a value of 1 if the donor's reputation is good as a result of the transaction, and a value of 0 if the donor's reputation is bad as a result of the transaction. This way fills the above shape.

Description

The purpose of the program is, given a Evaluation Norm, to Simplify the Norm.

The process of executing the program is:

1. Clone the repository
2. cd ../assignment-2018-3
3. Type python boolean_complexity.py <list of values>
   • <list of values> is a series of integers corresponding to the positions of the square where we set the value 1. We take each value and convert it to a four-bit binary number, eg b1b2b3b4. We find the point of the square with coordinates A=b1, B=b2, C=b3, D=b4.

The output of the program will be the simplified binary representation that describes the norm and its complexity.