The water conservation campaigns in residential households are hindered by the poor understanding of residents of how much water they use. For the better designed interventions new tools are necessary to educate the consumers on the water usage of different consumption events. In this paper we use the fine grained (0.5 Hz) water consumption data that was collected nonintrusively in a household ...

Economic escape theory predicts flight initiation distance (FID, predator–prey distance when fleeing from an approaching predator begins), but currently cannot account for an observed increase in FID as alert distance (AD, predator–prey distance when a prey becomes alert to a predator), or its surrogate, starting distance (SD, predator–prey distance when approach begins) increases. The flush ea...

In this work we present an approach to solving time-critical decision-making problems by taking advantage of domain structure to expand the amount of time available for processing difficult combinatorial tasks. Our approach uses predictable variability in computational demands to allocate on-line deliberation time and exploits problem regularity and stochastic models of environmental dynamics t...

In experimental economics there exists a lively debate about the independence of observations. Although opinions on the issue differ widely, all concerns regard the independence of subjects’ behavior within one session or experiment. This paper attempts to shed some light on the independence of observations between experiments, if they are generated by the same subjects. We analyze experiments ...

The research literature suggests that children and adolescents suffering from anxiety disorders experience cognitive distortions that magnify their perceived level of threat in the environment. Of these distortions, an attentional bias toward threat-related information has received the most theoretical and empirical consideration. A large volume of research suggests that anxiety-disordered yout...

In our model, informed players decide whether or not to disclose, and observers allocate attention among disclosed signals, and toward reasoning through the implications of a failure to disclose. In equilibrium disclosure is incomplete, and observers are unrealistically optimistic. Nevertheless, regulation requiring greater disclosure can reduce observers’ belief accuracies and welfare. A stron...

In a multicore system, effective management of shared last level cache (LLC) has attracted significant research attention. However, almost none of the existing solutions had been implemented on a real system until Intel introduced Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) to its commodity processors recently. CAT itself implements way partitioning and thus can only allocate at a coarse granularity, whi...