Cognitive Models of Decision Making: Running VOTE

The Common LISP version of the VOTE program is alive and well and available on the zoo. ( http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs458/lisp/) Here is a transcript of a sample session.

This is a summary of the commands displayed.

# connect to the VOTE lisp directory
cd /c/cs458/lisp
# start up lisp, aka, Steel Bank Common Lisp, aka, sbcl
lisp
;; load the sbcl initialization file, or copy it to ~/.sbclrc
(load "sbclrc.lisp")
;; load the vote program
(load "load_vote.lisp")
;; initialize the vote databases
(init-pol)
;; Run the VOTE object-oriented database for members of congress
(dbase member)
;; Sample dbase commands:
help / header / hc / display
;; connect to issue database and run sample commands
cd issue
;; connect to group database and run sample commands
cd group
;; connect to bill database and run sample commands
cd bill
;; connect to strategy database and run sample commands
cd strategy
;; run the vote program on a decision
(vote 'udall 'hr-2978)
;; view the decision database
(dbase decision)
;; turn on sarcasm
(sarcastic-explanation (car (db-all decision)))