This research enables robot explorers to maximize the total information gained while minimizing costs such as driving, sensing and planning. This paper presents a general methodology for solving complex exploration tasks which employs multiple sources of information. The paper also develops a specific instantiation of the method to solve the exploration problem of creating a complete traversabi...

Theoretical models of social learning predict that individuals can benefit from using strategies that specify when and whom to copy. Here the interaction of two social learning strategies, model age-based biased copying and copy when uncertain, was investigated. Uncertainty was created via a systematic manipulation of demonstration efficacy (completeness) and efficiency (causal relevance of som...

In this paper, we present a unified estimation technique to find the lower bounds on the number of LUT blocks and that of the micro-registers which can be obtained by any partitioning or synthesis methods, respectively, without performing any actual synthesis and/or design space exploration. The lower bound estimation is very important in sense that it greatly helps to evaluate the results of t...

Individuals constantly modulate their exploratory movements and adapt their internal hypotheses to incoming sensory information to achieve a thorough and realistic percept. Perception depends on the exploratory movements as well as influencing them. While this seems to be common sense, scientifically we know very little about the temporal dynamics during haptic exploration. To address this, we ...

Introduction: Otosclerosis is a disease of bony labyrinth. Structural changes in the labyrinth often cause ossicular fixation, and thus conductive hearing loss. The purpose of this study was to evaluate middle ear exploration findings and frequency of ossicular and footplate area anomalies in patients with suspected otosclerosis referred to Amiralmomenin and Golsar Hospitals in Rasht, Iran.   M...

despite wide-range of studies in the theories of the entrepreneurship field, few studies have offered a pervasive conceptual model or a general consensus of the existing theories. hence, this paper attempts to extend a comprehensive principle on entrepreneurship. in general, there are two common interpretations of the term ‘entrepreneurship’. one of the common views is schumpeterian, emphasizin...

This paper reviews recent developments under the free energy principle that introduce a normative perspective on classical economic (utilitarian) decision-making based on (active) Bayesian inference. It has been suggested that the free energy principle precludes novelty and complexity, because it assumes that biological systems-like ourselves-try to minimize the long-term average of surprise to...

We investigate the online exploration problem of a shortsighted mobile robot moving in an unknown cellular room without obstacles. The robot has a very limited sensor; it can determine only which of the four cells adjacent to its current position are free and which are blocked, i. e., unaccessible for the robot. Therefore, the robot must enter a cell in order to explore it. The robot has to vis...

During the development process of complex embedded systems there typically is a large number of architectural decisions that engineers are facing. Each of them can influence the properties of the end result (i.e.: cost, performance, etc.). A systematic process that supports this decision making is often referred to as Design Space Exploration (DSE). The need for computer-aided DSE methods was r...

Despite a growing body of evidence linking personality to life-history variation and fitness, the behavioural mechanisms underlying these relationships remain poorly understood. One mechanism thought to play a key role is how individuals respond to risk. Relatively reactive and proactive (or shy and bold) personality types are expected to differ in how they manage the inherent trade-off between...