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Why is the mirror neuron system so controversial? About a dozen papers have reported direct evidence for mirror neuron activity in monkeys and birds. Approximately 100 times as many papers refer to mirror neurons without directly recording their activity, often implying a link between mirror neurons and higher cognitive functions. While the existence of mirror neurons in animals is beyond doubt...

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CTMCs with Costs and Rewards

We consider continuous time Markov chains (CTMCs) where there are costs and rewards associated with each state. For such a CTMC the objective usually is to calculate either the long-run average costs incurred per unit time or the total discounted cost incurred over an infinite horizon. We illustrate the calculations using several examples and conclude with applications to system performance ana...

Biological auctions with multiple rewards.

The competition for resources among cells, individuals or species is a fundamental characteristic of evolution. Biological all-pay auctions have been used to model situations where multiple individuals compete for a single resource. However, in many situations multiple resources with various values exist and single reward auctions are not applicable. We generalize the model to multiple rewards ...

Performance evaluation with temporal rewards

Today many formalisms exist for specifying complex Markov chains. In contrast, formalisms for specifying rewards, enabling the analysis of long-run average performance properties, have remained quite primitive. Basically, they only support the analysis of relatively simple performance metrics that can be expressed as long-run averages of atomic rewards, i.e. rewards that are deductible directly...