Integrated digital human modeling has seen increased interest over the last decade. We describe two efforts to develop computational frameworks for digital human modeling and describe the progress toward understanding the requirements for implementation. Both projects addressed data repository, computational environment, and visualization of results. But neither environment was a true problemso...

We propose a decision making process meant to mimic human behavior. This process is implemented with computational agents. We use this computational testbed to run simulations of two coordination games, the minimum-effort coordination game and the battle of the sexes game. We find that the computational agents exhibit behavior similar to human subjects from previous experimental work. We then u...

We consider a setting in which a worker and a manager may each have information about the likely completion time of a task, and the worker also affects the completion time by choosing a level of effort. The task itself may further be composed of a set of subtasks, and the worker can also decide how many of these subtasks to split out into an explicit prediction task. In addition, the worker can...

This study examines the acceptance and use of ICT by Nigerian university academicians. The model validated is the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). Using a pilot study, one hundred questionnaires were administered and collected at the University of Jos Plateau State, Nigeria. The construct was significantly correlated with behavioral intention (BI). This implies that t...

Because impulsive decision-making is correlated with many maladaptive tendencies, researchers have increasingly studied methods for reducing choice. These efforts primarily focused on increasing choices of larger, more-delayed rewards. A second type choice selecting a smaller, less-effortful reward over more-effortful one. Little nonhuman research has examined experimental effort-based Within t...

Table 1 provides the average computational time (in minutes) for the eight methods under the simulation settings. SIS clearly requires the least computational effort, whereas RLASSO as well as Scout require much longer computational time. But all methods except RLASSO(CLIME) can be computed under a reasonable amount of time for p = 5000 and n = 100. RLASSO(CLIME) takes much longer because of in...

Distributed Simulation (DS) has gained popularity for the advantages of increased computational capabilities, simulator reusability and distributed execution [1]. Factors affecting the effectiveness of the DS approach are the skills and the extra-effort that the development of a DS system requires with respect to the equivalent Local Simulation (LS) system. In the case of IEEE High Level Archit...

Domain-specific language techniques can considerably lower the software development effort and time required for problems in computational science and engineering. We describe our domain specific language for field-based partial differential equation simulations and show how it can address a whole family of such problems. Our system requires minimal effort to generate C++ software for a new equ...