Self-monitoring in production is critical to correct performance, and recent accounts suggest that such monitoring may occur via the detection of response conflict. The error-related negativity (ERN) is a response-locked event-related potential (ERP) that is sensitive to response conflict. The present study examines whether response conflict is detected in production by exploring a situation wh...

We address the conflict detection and resolution problem in air traffic control, where an aircraft conflict is a loss of separation between aircraft trajectories. Conflict avoidance is crucial to ensure flight safety and remains a challenging traffic control problem. We focus on speed control to separate aircraft and consider two approaches: (i) maximize the number of conflicts resolved and (ii...

B.M. Glatzeder et al. (eds.), Towards a Theory of Thinking, On Thinking, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-03129-8_2, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 Abstract Half a century of reasoning and decision-making research has shown that human thinking is often biased. People seem to over-rely on intuitions and gut feelings instead of on more demanding, deliberative reasoning when making decisions. The o...

The relative importance of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) for the detection and resolution of response conflicts versus its role in error monitoring remains under debate. One disputed issue is whether conflict detection and error monitoring can be viewed as unitary functions performed by the same region of the ACC, or whether these processes can be dissociated functionally and anatomically...

In collaborative software development the utilization of Version Control Systems (VCSs) is a must. For this important task some graph-based VCSs for model artifacts already emerged. Optimistic approaches, which are nowadays the designated ones, allow parallel editing of one resource and therefore changes can result in conflicts and inconsistencies. To be flexible for the ever increasing variety...

Cognitive control includes the ability to formulate goals and plans of action and to follow these while facing distraction. Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that the presence of conflicting response alternatives in Stroop-like tasks increases activity in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), suggesting that the ACC is involved in cognitive control. However, the exact nature of ACC fun...

Based on the trajectory prediction error model proposed by Paielli and Erzberger, we propose nominal and probabilistic conflict detection algorithms using flight mode estimates as well as the aircraft current state estimates. This is different from previous conflict detection algorithms which use current state estimates only. Our algorithms are therefore based on hybrid models of aircraft, whic...

Ambient intelligent systems such as Home and Building Automation Systems (HBAS) are becoming evermore accepted and capable of actuating automatically on behalf of users to fulfil their requests or enable activities. However, when multiple users interact with such systems, the requirements of activities often interfere resulting in conflicting actuations which HBAS ought to automatically detect ...

The design and evaluation of traffic conflict detection and resolution systems requires the use of analytical models that describe encounter dynamics and the costs and benefits of avoidance actions. A number of such models have been applied in the past to the problem, but there has been no cohesive discussion or comparative evaluation of these approaches. Each method has benefits and limitation...

A recent electrophysiological study suggests existing compensatory brain activity as a mechanism for functional recovery of visual attention detection (the capacity for detecting external cues) in symptomatically remitted schizophrenia patients. Despite such evidence, little is known about other aspects of attentional-related processes in schizophrenia during clinical remission, such as their c...