The identity of an object is a fixed property, independent of where it appears, and an effective visual system should capture this invariance [1-3]. However, we now report that the perceived gender of a face is strongly biased toward male or female at different locations in the visual field. The spatial pattern of these biases was distinctive and stable for each individual. Identical neutral fa...

We propose a minimal model for aeolian sand dunes. It combines an analytical description of the turbulent wind velocity field above the dune with a continuum saltation model that allows for saturation transients in the sand flux. The model provides a qualitative understanding of important features of real dunes, such as their longitudinal shape and aspect ratio, the formation of a slip face, th...

Pore-scale flow simulations were conducted to investigate the permeability tensor of anisotropic porous media constructed using the Voronoi tessellation method. This construction method enabled the introduction of anisotropy to the media at the particle level in a random and yet controllable way. Simulations were carried out for media with different degrees of anisotropy through varying the mea...

Software agents have to play roles during their collaborations in a multi-agent system (MAS). (Roles represent collaborative activities of the agents in a specific context. Many facets need to be considered on a role definition [7, 24], including the specification of events that trigger the role activation and deactivation. Each role also involves the specification of its specific knowledge. Ho...

A summary of any event type is only complete if certain information aspects are mentioned. For a court trial, readers will at least want to know who is involved and what the charges and the sentence are. For a natural disaster, they will ask for the disaster type, the victims and other damages. Will a co-occurrence or frequency-based sentence extraction summariser automatically provide the requ...

Aspect extraction identifies relevant features of an entity from a textual description and is typically targeted to product reviews, and other types of short text, as an enabling task for, e.g., opinion mining and information retrieval. Current aspect extraction methods mostly focus on aspect terms, often neglecting associated modifiers or embedding them in the aspect terms without proper disti...

MODEL CONCRETE MODEL UID with integration points + SIG template for Accessibility 1

Linearizability of concurrent data structures is usually proved by monolithic simulation arguments relying on identifying the so-called linearization points. Regrettably, such proofs, whether manual or automatic, are often complicated and scale poorly to advanced non-blocking concurrency patterns, such as helping and optimistic updates. In response, we propose a more modular way of checking lin...

Software engineers of multi-agent systems (MASs) are faced with the design and implementation of the mobility concern in addition to the agents’ basic functionalities and other agent-related concerns. As the agents’ complexity increases, the mobility concern cannot be modularized based only on object-oriented abstractions. The mobility concern tends to spread across several system classes and m...

We would like to argue that building aspect oriented operating systems is a potential technology needs and promising solutions that can make a significant impact on the way we deign and produce software in the coming future. At the same time, the open, unresolved issues on the basic architecture and design of aspect oriented operating systems puts such adventure beyond the scope of today's shor...