Breaking out from constant connectivity: Agentic regulation of smartphone use

Out of Work, Out of Mind?: Smartphone Use and Work-Life Boundaries

Smartphones are now ubiquitous and valuable in many professions and yet have also been blamed for creating an ‘always on’ culture, blurring boundaries between work and home. Research has shown that checking e-mails out-of-hours via computer makes workers feel more overloaded with work but also increases their sense of coping. A total of 94 participants completed a survey exploring whether the s...

Breaking Out CSPs

In this paper, we present the very efficient and unparametrized local search algorithm called Weighted Min-Conflicts (WMC), based on Morris’ Breakout Method, and show how the relationship existing between WMC and the dom/wdeg heuristic used with MGAC can be used to design a simple hybrid algorithm. An exhaustive experimentation will be performed, considering in particular the instances used as ...

GRCBox: Extending Smartphone Connectivity in Vehicular Networks

The low penetration of connectivity-enabled OBUs is delaying the deployment of vehicular networks (VNs) and therefore the development of vehicular delay tolerant network (VDTN) applications, among others. In this paper we present GRCBox, an architecture based onRaspberryPi that allows integrating smartphones inVNs.GRCBox is based on a low-cost device that combines several pieces of software to ...

Breaking out of your comfort zone!

Out Of This World Supersymmetry Breaking

We show that in a general hidden sector model, supersymmetry breaking necessarily generates at one-loop a scalar and gaugino mass as a consequence of the super-Weyl anomaly. We study a scenario in which this contribution dominates. We consider the Standard Model particles to be localized on a (3+1)-dimensional subspace or “3-brane” of a higher dimensional spacetime, while supersymmetry breaking...