Just relax and concentrate on your breathing

Just relax and concentrate on your breathing.

“Just relax and concentrate on your breathing” is a comment that is heard by almost all patients attending an emergency department with an exacerbation of acute asthma. It’s meant to reassure the patient but has exactly the opposite effect. I have severe asthma and often have to attend my local emergency department with acute attacks. These attacks leave me struggling to breathe; sitting up is ...

Learning with options: Just deliberate and relax

Bounded rationality is a very important framework for understanding rationality in both natural and artificial systems. In this paper, we aim to bridge the gap between bounded rationality and reinforcement learning, which has also proven very fruitful in both types of intelligent systems. A lot of reinforcement learning work has focused on Markov Decision Processes, where optimal policies can b...

Just in Your Head

RapidProM: Mine Your Processes and Not Just Your Data

The number of events recorded for operational processes is growing every year. This applies to all domains: from health care and e-government to production and maintenance. Event data are a valuable source of information for organizations that need to meet requirements related to compliance, efficiency, and customer service. Process mining helps to turn these data into real value: by discoverin...

Employee Motivation: “Just Ask Your Employees”

Employee motivation is an intricate and sophisticated subject; however, contemporary managers must face and deal with this topic to obtain organizational success. To enhance understanding of employee motivation, mangers must recognize the imperativeness of employee motivation, its concepts, and differences in individual needs. Subsequently, managers need to be aware of a variety of employee mot...