Adjusting Structures and Procedures

Estimating the subjective value of future rewards: comparison of adjusting-amount and adjusting-delay procedures.

The present study examined whether equivalent discounting of delayed rewards is observed with different experimental procedures. If the underlying decision-making process is the same, then similar patterns of results should be observed regardless of procedure, and similar estimates of the subjective value of future rewards (i.e., indifference points) should be obtained. Two experiments compared...

Uniform Procedures in Uncountable Structures

This paper contributes to the general program of extending techniques and ideas of effective algebra to computable metric space theory. It is well-known that relative computable categoricity (to be defined) of a computable algebraic structure is equivalent to having a c.e. Scott family with finitely many parameters (e.g., [1]). The first main result of the paper extends this characterisation to...

Brief Announcement: SplayNets - Towards Self-Adjusting Distributed Data Structures

This paper initiates the study of self-adjusting distributed data structures for networks. In particular, we present SplayNets: a binary search tree based network that is self-adjusting to routing request. We derive entropy bounds on the amortized routing cost and show that our splaying algorithm has some interesting properties. 1 Contribution Sketch Distributed Splay Trees. In the mid 80s, Sle...

Self-adjusting Data Structures for External Memory String Access

Procedures for the assessment of highway structures

Bridges, earth-retaining walls and buried structures make up a substantial proportion of the fixed assets of the land-based transportation infrastructure within Europe. Little work has been done on the development of documents covering the assessment of highway structures compared to the design of new structures. This paper describes an approach to assessment developed through working groups 4 ...