Gauging Merit in the Badge

The Active Badge Location

Integration of telephone systems with computer systems is an important part of the development of the automated ooce. Much work has already been undertaken integrating digital voice and data into a single network 1] but there has been less commercial eeort invested in improving the telephone interface. Although these interfaces are functionally very sophisticated they are mostly cryptic and the...

Manipulating the appearance of a badge of status causes changes in true badge expression.

Signals of dominance and fighting ability (i.e. status signals) are found in a wide range of taxa and are used to settle disputes between competitive rivals. Most previous research has considered status-signal phenotype as an attribute of the individual; however, it is more likely that signal expression is an emergent property that also incorporates aspects of the social environment. Furthermor...

Tracking the merit of merit pay

”gauging” the Fluid

A consistent framework has been put forward to quantize the isentropic, compressible and inviscid fluid model in the Hamiltonian framework, using the Clebsch parameterization. The naive quantization is hampered by the non-canonical (in particular field dependent) Poisson Bracket algebra. To overcome this problem, the Batalin-Tyutin [11] quantization formalism is adopted in which the original sy...

The Principles of Gauging

The aim of this paper is twofold: First, to present an examination of the principles underlying gauge field theories. I shall argue that there are two principles directly connected to the two well-known theorems of Emmy Noether concerning global and local symmetries of the free matter-field Lagrangian, in the following referred to as “conservation principle” and “gauge principle”. Since both th...