Looking Ahead with Optimism and Gratitude

Appreciation, gratitude, and looking forward.

As CJASN continues to advance and innovate, it is gratifying to see the tremendous growth in the number of high-quality manuscripts submitted for consideration. As a result, the selection of manuscripts for publication has become a privilege and a challenge (our acceptance rate is now 15%). The success of the journal is directly related to the hard work and devotion of the individuals who make ...

Looking ahead.

Looking ahead.

Looking Ahead?

Human and nonhuman primates are not mentally constrained to the present. They can remember the past and—at least to an extent—anticipate the future. Anticipation of the future ranges from long-term prospection such as planning for retirement to more short-term future-oriented cognition such as planning a route through a maze. Here we tested a great ape species (chimpanzees), an Old World monkey...

Looking at Full Looking Ahead

Haralick and Elliott's full looking ahead algorithm [4] was presented in the same article as forward checking, but is not as commonly used. We give experimental results which indicate that on some types of constraint satisfaction problems, full looking ahead outperforms forward checking. We also present three new looking ahead algorithms, all variations on full looking ahead, which were designe...