S ott A. Walla e and John E. Laird Arti ial Intelligen e Laboratory University of Mi higan Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA fswalla e,lairdg umi h.edu ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine Newell's de nition of an agent's intelligen e. The de nition implies a very stri t orrelation between the agent's knowledge, its mind, and its behavior. Based on this orrelation we argue that a on ise and well{formed re...

Although the security properties of 3G and 4G mobile networks have significantly improved by comparison with 2G (GSM), significant shortcomings remain with respect to user privacy. A number of possible modifications to 2G, 3G and 4G protocols have been proposed designed to provide greater user privacy; however, they all require significant alterations to the existing deployed infrastructures, w...

Bonds are traded in over-the-counter markets, where opacity and fragmentation imply large transaction costs for retail investors. Is there something special about bonds, in contrast to stocks, precluding transparent limit-order markets? Historical experience suggests this is not the case. Before WWII, there was an active market in corporate and municipal bonds on the NYSE. Activity dropped dram...

There has recently been a surge of research efforts aimed at very early detection of disease outbreaks. An important strategy for improving the timeliness of outbreak detection is to identify signals that occur early in the epidemic process. We have developed a novel algorithm to identify aggregates of "similar" over-the-counter products that have strong association with a given disease. This p...

When characterizing the information structure of sentences, the so-called focus identifies the part of a sentence addressing the current question under discussion in the discourse. While this notion is precisely defined in formal semantics and potentially very useful in theoretical and practical terms, it has turned out to be difficult to reliably annotate focus in corpus data. We present a new...

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, China has cracked down hard on corruption. Among all the efforts, the Central Leading Group for Inspection Work has made the most contribution. As some people consider the Ming Dynasty’s Touring Censorial Inspectors as “China’s Ancient Central Leading Group for Inspection Work”, it is not difficult to find out certain similarity existing between these two k...

Entrepreneurs need cash to finance their investments. Since cash is costly to hold, entrepreneurs underinvest. If entrepreneurs are able to access secondary financial markets, then they can sell some of their less liquid assets for cash and invest at a higher level. When the secondary financial markets are over-the-counter (OTC), the amount of liquidity (cash) that is in the market affects asse...

Edward Balaban∗ NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035 Abhinav Saxena SGT, Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035 Sriram Narasimhan University ofCalifornia, SantaCruz,NASAAmes ResearchCenter,Moffett Field, California 94035 Indranil Roychoudhury SGT, Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035 Michael Koopmans Tesla Motors, Palo ...

We examine the length of time between when an individual feels sick and when he/she visits a doctor using survival analysis to capture the dynamic aspects of this behavior. If the disease is light, actions such as OTC medicine or sick leave are alternatives to visiting a clinic or a hospital immediately. The timing of the visit depends only the person’s decision, not on a doctor’s, so we can li...

This work concerns pattern formation in vertically driven granular media. We generalize the work of Shankar C. Vankataramani and Edward Ott to test notions about patterns found in vertically driven granular media. A generalization of this model is present along with some of the preliminary results.