Many factors affect JIT implementation directly or indirectly. Factors such as product quality and lead time directly affect the implementation of JIT. On the other hand, factors such as work environment, working conditions, motivation, flexibility whether manufacturing or organizational affect JIT implementation indirectly, although their impact is no less important than those affecting direct...

Robot vision systems inspired by human-like vision are required to employ mechanisms similar to those that have proven to be crucial in human visual performance. One of these mechanisms is attentive perception. Findings from vision science research suggest that attentive perception requires a multitude of properties: A retina with fovea-periphery distinction, an attention mechanism that can be ...

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This paper argues that our awareness of the mental states of other agents is often perceptual in character. It draws partly on recent experimental findings concerning perception of animacy and intentionality. But it also emphasizes the unencapsulated nature of perception generally, and argues that concepts (including mental-state concepts) can be bound into the contents of conscious perception....

© 2 0 0 1 m a s s a c h u s e t t s i n s t i t u t e o f t e c h n o l o g y, c a m b r i d g e , m a 0 2 1 3 9 u s a — w w w. a i. m i t. e d u m a s s a c h u s e t t s i n s t i t u t e o f t e c h n o l o g y — a r t i f i c i a l i n t e l l i g e n c e l a b o r a t o r y @ MIT Abstract The human visual system is adept at detecting and encoding statistical regularities in its spatio-temp...

Within the setting of two simple two-person coordination games the formation of subjective strategies is observed experimentally. Though the structure of the game is unknown players use their actions in order to coordinate on a specific equilibrium. Strategies enable them to interpret the opponent’s behavior in an appropriate way. It turns out that more informed players coordinate faster while ...