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The role of serotonin in nonnormative risky choice: The effects of tryptophan supplements on the "reflection effect" in healthy adult volunteers
Authors: Susannah E. Murphy, Carlo Longhitano, Rachael E. Ayres, Philip J. Cowen, Catherine J. Harmer, Robert D. Rogers
Venue: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2009)

Risky decision-making involves weighing good and bad outcomes against their probabilities in order to determine the relative values of candidate actions. Although human decision-making sometimes conforms to rational models of how this weighting is achieved, irrational (or nonnormative) patterns of risky choice, including shifts between risk-averse and risk-seeking choices involving equivalent-value gambles (the "reflection effect"), are frequently observed. In the present experiment, we investigated the role of serotonin in decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. Fifteen healthy adult volunteers received a treatment of 3 g per day of the serotonin precursor, tryptophan, in the form of dietary supplements over a 14-day period, whereas 15 age-and IQ-matched control volunteers received a matched placebo substance. At test, all participants completed a risky decision-making task involving a series of choices between two simultaneously presented gambles, differing in the magnitude of their possible gains, the magnitude of their possible losses, and the probabilities with which these outcomes were delivered. Tryptophan supplements were associated with alterations in the weighting of gains and small losses perhaps reflecting reduced loss-aversion, and a marked and significant diminution of the reflection effect. We conclude that serotonin activity plays a significant role in nonnormative risky decision-making under conditions of uncertainty.
Comparing the Feature Selection Using the Distributed Non-overlap Area Measurement Method with Principal Component Analysis
Authors: Sang-Hong Lee, Dong-Kun Shin, Zhen-Xing Zhang, Joon S. Lim
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 Eigth IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (2009)

This paper compares the forecasting performance of the feature extraction using the principal component analysis (PCA) that is one of the oldest and best known techniques in multivariate analysis with the feature selection using the non-overlap area distribution measurement method based on the neural network with weighted fuzzy membership functions (NEWFM). This paper proposes CPPn,m (Current Price Position of day n : a percentage of the difference between the price of day n and the moving average of the past m days from day n-1) as a new technical indicator. In this paper, two and one input features with the best average forecasting performance are selected from the number of approximations and detail coefficients made by Haar wavelet function from CPPn,5 to CPPn-31,5 using the non-overlap area distribution measurement method and PCA, respectively. The performance results of the non-overlap area distribution measurement method and PCA are 60.93% and 56.63%, respectively. The non-overlap area distribution measurement method outperforms PCA by 4.3% for the holdout sets.
Syntactic Doubling: Some Data on Tuscan Italian
Authors: Anna Esposito
Venue: Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions: COST Action 2102 International Conference Prague, Czech Republic, October 15-18, 2008 Revised Selected and Invited Papers (2009)

The data of an experimental study on Syntactic Doubling (Raddoppiamento Sintattico (RS)) in Tuscan Italian are reported and discussed. (a) Consonant not subject to RS with consonant possibly subject to RS in adjacent stressed syllables; (b) with a phonological boundary intervening between trigger and target; and (c) with no phonological phrase boundary intervening are compared. We consistently find lengthening in (b) (short RS), but more lengthening in (c) (long RS). Our data indicate that (short) RS applies across phonological phrases. The publication of these data was motivated by the recent interest raised by the ESF-funded project Edisyn [1] on dialect syntax aiming, among the other goals, to investigate doubling phenomena in European languages and dialects for cross-linguistic comparisons.
A Process Scheduling Analysis Model Based on Grid Environment
Authors: Huey-Ming Lee, Tsang-Yean Lee, Ching-Hao Cheng, Chia-Hsien Chung
Venue: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (2009)

The functions of information systems based on grid architecture are resources sharing, collaborative processing, etc. Resources are used by processes. System performance is calculated from resource usages. To have good performance in the system based on grid environment, process scheduling is more important to have load-balancing in all grid nodes. In this paper, we propose a process scheduling analysis model (PSAM) based on grid environment. When the load of the node is high, PSAM can transfer jobs to the most suitable node which selected by supervisor grid node. By this model, we can make all grid nodes be load-balancing. Via implementing this model, we can improve the grid environment performance efficiently.
A Probabilistic Model of Motor Resonance for Embodied Gesture Perception
Authors: Amir Sadeghipour, Stefan Kopp
Venue: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (2009)

Basic communication and coordination mechanisms of human social interaction are assumed to be mediated by perception-action links. These links ground the observation and understanding of others in one's own action generation system, as evidenced by immediate motor resonances to perceived behavior. We present a model to endow virtual embodied agents with similar properties of embodied perception. With a focus of hand-arm gesture, the model comprises hierarchical levels of motor representation (commands, programs, schemas) that are employed and start to resonate probabilistically to visual stimuli of a demonstrated movement. The model is described and evaluation results are provided.
Developing a practical framework for ERP readiness assessment using fuzzy analytic network process
Authors: Jafar Razmi, Mohamad Sadegh Sangari, Reza Ghodsi
Venue: Advances in Engineering Software (2009)

Previous studies report unusually high failure in enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects. Thus, it is necessary to perform an assessment at the initial stage of an ERP implementation program to identify weaknesses or problems which may lead to project failure. No definite practical solution could be found for these kinds of problems in the literature. In this paper, a new look at the determinants of a firm's readiness to implement an ERP project is presented and using fuzzy analytic network process a practical framework is developed. The firm's current conditions regarding ERP project can be determined and necessary changes prior to implementation of ERP system can be specified. The readiness for ERP implementation is decomposed into project management, organizational, and change management areas and the assessment factors are identified after comprehensive study of critical success factors on ERP implementation. The proposed framework is applied to a real case and the advantages are illustrated.
The Binary Behavioral Modes Based on Action Sequence and Compliance Verification for Compositional Web Service
Authors: Bo Chen, Guosun Zeng, Hongzhen Xu
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 Asia-Pacific Conference on Information Processing - Volume 01 (2009)

To verify whether a compositional web service is compliant to the specific requirements of users is one of important research issue for web service. Most of existed work about web service verification do not address the issue of how to model the requirements that the BPEL4WS processes are supposed to satisfy. The specifications are temporal relation based on actions or messages in essence. Distinguish with these work, we propose the concept of binary behavioral specification based on action sequence. Express these specifications as behavioral modes. Encode them on LTS and then give them operation semantics. After Modeling compositional web services as LTS, sufficient and necessary conditions and algorithms have been given for checking them whether the given web service compositions compliant to the behavioral mode
Detection and estimation of the motion velocity vector of a inhomogeneous spatially extended object by image. I
Authors: R. V. Kutsov, A. P. Trifonov
Venue: Automation and Remote Control (2009)

In the paper, we study maximally plausible algorithms for detection and estimation of the motion velocity vector of image of a inhomogeneous spatially extended object for an applicative model of interaction of the useful image and background. Asymptotic expressions for characteristics of synthesized algorithms are obtained by using a method of local additive approximation of logarithm of likelihood ratio functional.
Relationship Learning Software: Design and Assessment
Authors: Kyla A. Mcmullen, Gregory H. Wakefield
Venue: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Part III: Ubiquitous and Intelligent Interaction (2009)

Interface designers have been studying how to construct graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for a number of years, however adults are often the main focus of these studies. Children constitute a unique user group, making it necessary to design software specifically for them. For this study, several interface design frameworks were combined to synthesize a framework for designing educational software for children. Two types of learning, relationships and categories, are the focus of the present study because of their importance in early-child learning as well as standardized testing. For this study the educational game Melo's World was created as an experimental platform. The experiments assessed the performance differences found when including or excluding subsets of interface design features, specifically aesthetic and behavioral features. Software that contains aesthetic, but lack behavioral features, was found to have the greatest positive impact on a child's learning of thematic relationships.
Design and Object-oriented Implementation of an Intelligence Entity Sharing Pool
Authors: Runhe Huang, Jianhua Ma, Kenichi Takahashi, Kouichi Sakurai
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 WRI Global Congress on Intelligent Systems - Volume 02 (2009)

One of the challenges for ubiquitous intelligence computing is how to enable ubiquitous devices (u-devices) certain levels of intelligent/smart/autonomic/ processing capabilities. Due to their limited capacity and processing power, it is difficult to embed such capabilities into u-devices. The idea is to design an intelligence entity sharing pool in which an intelligence entity can be dynamically composed from a number of atomic intelligence entities and/or complex intelligence entities. This research has two phases: (1) how to design the intelligence entity sharing pool; and (2) how to share an intelligence entity in the sharing pool. The second phase is completely upon the first phase as the premise. This paper is mainly focused on presenting our design ideas of the intelligence entity sharing pool in the following aspects: (1) defining atomic intelligence entity and complex intelligence entity; (2) designing an appropriate structure for storing atomic/complex intelligence entities; and (3) designing mechanisms for composition and decomposition of intelligence entity/entities.
Research on Anti-interference Technology of Short-Distance Wireless Communication
Authors: Lu XuTao, Sun YunQiang
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Environmental Science and Information Application Technology - Volume 02 (2009)

Wireless transmission module PTR6000M based on nRF24L01 module constitutes the wireless network with multi-way data synchronization testing in the rugged electromagnetic environment of the armored vehicles characteristic parameter testing. This program is successfully used in real vehicle testing, providing a reliable information source for running armored vehicles monitoring, security and optimal control and fault identification prediction, but there is a problem of data loss. According to this situation to analyze the interference factors in system, research on anti-interference technology of short-distance wireless communication, to solve it using extension communication protocol, and give proof in real vehicle testing. The experimental analysis result shows that this method can effectively resolve the problem of data loss, and achieve reliable wireless data transmission.
Range Quantile Queries: Another Virtue of Wavelet Trees
Authors: Travis Gagie, Simon J. Puglisi, Andrew Turpin
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (2009)

We show how to use a balanced wavelet tree as a data structure that stores a list of numbers and supports efficient range quantile queries. A range quantile query takes a rank and the endpoints of a sublist and returns the number with that rank in that sublist. For example, if the rank is half the sublist's length, then the query returns the sublist's median. We also show how these queries can be used to support space-efficient coloured range reporting and document listing.
The Case Study on CSI of Household Electrical Appliances Based on Customer Delivered Value
Authors: Bu Qingjuan
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 First International Workshop on Database Technology and Applications (2009)

Influence factors of customer's satisfaction index about household electrical appliances were studied from the point view of customer delivered value. Its content lied in : (1) based on customer delivered value theory, a table for weighing household electrical appliances was designed in order to study influence factors of customer's satisfaction index for household electrical appliances; (2) the important degree about Index of household electrical appliances was studied. Regarding customers as major study objects, questionnaires were performed and data was analyzed and processed with SPSS software. Results show that age, academic background, family situation and profession has significant influence on the importance degree about customer delivered value, and, income and region have not obvious influence.
The Illusion of Agency: Two Engineering Approaches to Compromise Autonomy and Reactivity in an Artificial System
Authors: Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Takashi Ikegami
Venue: Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems (2009)

This article describes and compares two approaches that can be used to build artificial systems that users tend to recognize as agents, based on a review of two systems previously built by the authors. One system, an interactive musical instrument, is a typical artificial intelligence (AI) implementation, based on the technique of constraint programming. The other, a dancing robot, is a typical artificial life (AL) endeavor, specified as a non-linear dynamical system. Although very different in their design, we found that both systems have the same goal of compromising autonomy and reactivity in their user interaction. They elicit interaction andâwe argue hereâan elusive feeling of agency , because they are neither too predictable nor too random. Creating and controlling such a compromise in a programmatic way is not a trivial problem: we find that both approaches (AI and AL) raise similar pragmatic problems that are in fact rooted in human perception science. Psychological experimentation is needed to clarify the relation between the internal dynamics of the artificial systems and the ongoing feeling of agency (or absence thereof) imparted in their human user. As a first step toward such experimentation, we derive a minimal mathematical model which subsumes both implementations and abstracts them from their respective contexts of music and dance. This model is similar to a Van der Pol oscillator, forced by an input signal coupled to its output in a non-programmatic way. It isolates two critical variables controlling the illusion of agency: the modelâs sampling rate and the polynomial order of its reactive term.
Application of XML-Based Heterogeneous Database Data Exchange Middleware in E-commerce
Authors: OuYang ZhengZheng
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 IITA International Conference on Services Science, Management and Engineering (2009)

In account of the heterogeneous data existed in thee-commerce, the solution of heterogeneous database data exchange middleware based on XML is brought up. With the beginning of heterogeneous data integration, this paper combined with the examples of e-commerce platform construction, realized the transformation and integration of the relational data to XML data, which provided the underlying support for the data sharing, publishing and application access among various systems.
Formal Verification of Gate-Level Computer Systems
Authors: Mark Hillebrand, Sergey Tverdyshev
Venue: Proceedings of the Fourth International Computer Science Symposium in Russia on Computer Science - Theory and Applications (2009)

We present the formal verification of a gate-level computer system, in which a complex processor and external devices run in parallel. The system specification is an instruction set architecture with concurrently running visible devices. To the best of our knowledge this is the first formal treatment of integrating devices into a gate-level computer system.
Combatting Electoral Traces: The Dutch Tempest Discussion and Beyond
Authors: Wolter Pieters
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on E-Voting and Identity (2009)

In the Dutch e-voting debate, the crucial issue leading to the abandonment of all electronic voting machines was compromising radiation, or tempest: it would be possible to eavesdrop on the choice of the voter by capturing the radiation from the machine. Other countries, however, do not seem to be bothered by this risk. In this paper, we use actor-network theory to analyse the socio-technical origins of the Dutch tempest issue in e-voting, and we introduce concepts for discussing its implications for e-voting beyond the Netherlands. We introduce the term electoral traces to denote any physical, digital or social evidence of a voter's choices in an election. From this perspective, we provide a framework for risk classification as well as an overview of countermeasures against such traces.
A Two-User Framework for Rapid Immersive Full Cycle Product Customization
Authors: Maxim Foursa, David D'Angelo, Gerold Wesche, Manfred Bogen
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Virtual and Mixed Reality: Held as Part of HCI International 2009 (2009)

In this paper we present an approach for a full cycle product customization in Virtual Environments (VE). The main goal of our work is to develop an integrated immersive framework, which allows configuring products from a great number of parts. Our framework supports collaborative work of two users and operates both on desktop computers and in immersive environments. The framework is integrated into a manufacturing environment, thus making the immediate production of customized products possible. The integrated modules of the framework allow importing CAD files directly into VE, creation of new objects on the basis of constructive solid geometry principles, attaching virtual connectivity-describing attributes to parts, guided assembly of parts and comprehensive analysis of products. In order to identify the influence of immersion and collaboration on the performance in assembly and manipulation tasks in VE, we performed a quantitative assessment of user performance, which we also describe in the paper.
Adaptive Output Feedback Control of Nonholonomic Systems with Strong Nonlinear Drifts
Authors: Zhanping Yuan, Zhuping Wang, Qijun Chen
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 WRI Global Congress on Intelligent Systems - Volume 02 (2009)

In this paper, adaptive output feedback control strategy is proposed to deal with a class of nonholonomic systems in chained form with strongly nonlinear disturbances and uncertain parameters using output signals only. The objective is to design adaptive nonlinear output feedback laws such that the closed-loop systems are globally asymptotically stable, while the estimated parameters remain bounded. The systematic strategy combines the input-state-scaling and backstepping procedure. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers.
Analysing the Role of Accessibility in Contemporary Urban Development
Authors: Henning Sten Hansen
Venue: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part I (2009)

Accessibility is an important spatial characteristic and a significant link between transportation and land-use. Accordingly, accessibility plays in important role in urban and regional planning, spatial policy development, and urban land-use modelling. Accessibility is usually estimated by means of infrastructure based measures, which describes the performance of the road network. The aim of the current research project has been to analyse the relationship between accessibility and contemporary urban development to support urban land-use modelling efforts. Traditionally, accessibility analysis has been performed using network analysis software, but in order to create spatially continuous accessibility surfaces we have used a raster based approach to accessibility analysis. We have applied two different kinds of destinations for the accessibility calculations. Besides the towns and city centres, which are the usual choice of destination points, we decided also to calculate an accessibility surface for motorway junctions, due the fact that they are crucial for many location decisions. The results of the analysis indicate that the usual way of handling accessibility in land-use modelling is insufficient, and significant improvement can be obtained by incorporating `real' accessibility in urban land-use models.
Oil Contamination Monitoring Based on Dielectric Constant Measurement
Authors: Dingxin Yang, Xiaofei Zhang, Zheng Hu, Yongmin Yang
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation - Volume 01 (2009)

Fault information of machinery equipments is often contained in the process of lubricating oil wearing off.Meanwhile, the dielectric constant of the oil would changeaccordingly during the process. The principle of online oilcontamination monitoring based on dielectric constantmeasurement is proposed. The measure system is alsodeveloped, which includes capacitance sensor, smallcapacitance detecting circuit and software of monitoring and analysis. Experiments are carried out on lubricating oil polluted by different contamination. The results show that change of lubricating oil’s relative dielectric constant can be detected effectively and properly distinguished using the developed measure system, which can be used to determine the proper oil-replacing period, and to perform fault prediction of the machineryequipments.