By slightly tweaking some recent mathematics by Dupré and Tipler, it is shown that, if an intelligence even approximately obeys certain simple consistency conditions in its reasoning about uncertainty, then its uncertainty judgments must approximately obey the rules of probability theory. It is argued that, while real-world cognitive systems will rarely be fully consistent, they will often poss...

A shop floor control system (SFCS), the central part of a computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) system, is responsible for resolving various problems, such as planning and scheduling, task execution, recovery from errors due to the dynamic nature of the shop floor, etc. However, the high cost of SFCS development and maintenance has been recognized as a significant bottleneck in building autom...

Emotional stimuli automatically recruit attentional resources. Although this usually brings more adaptive responses, it may suppose a disadvantage when emotional information is task-irrelevant and should be ignored. Previous studies have shown how emotional stimuli with a negative content exert a greater interference than neutral stimuli during a concurrent working memory (WM) task. However, th...

This paper reports on recent work and directions in modern software architectures and their formal models with respect to software maintenance. Related earlier work, now entering practice, provides automatic creation of object structures for customer applications using such models and their algebra, and we will summarize that work. Our focus on maintenance intends to attack the most costly and ...

BACKGROUND Behaviour change interventions are effective in supporting individuals in achieving temporary behaviour change. Behaviour change maintenance, however, is rarely attained. The aim of this review was to identify and synthesise current theoretical explanations for behaviour change maintenance to inform future research and practice. METHODS Potentially relevant theories were identified...

WORKING MEMORY (WM) INVOLVES THREE COGNITIVE EVENTS information encoding, maintenance, and retrieval; these are supported by brain activity in a network of frontal, parietal and temporal regions. Manipulation of WM load and duration of the maintenance period can modulate this activity. Although such modulations have been widely studied using the event-related potentials (ERP) technique, a preci...

Reliability Centered Maintenance(RCM) is one of most widely used methods in the modern power system to schedule a maintenance cycle and determine the priority of inspection. In order to apply the RCM method to the Smart Grid, a precedence study for the new structure of rearranged system should be performed due to introduction of additional installation such as renewable and sustainable energy r...

This paper presents an analysis of technical debt management through resources allocation policies in software maintenance process during its operation to demonstrate how different strategies leads to the emergence of different behaviors along the evolution path. To achieve this objective, this work used the System Dynamic approach for building a computational simulation model based on extensiv...

There is a growing trend for asset intensive industries to outsource maintenance services of their complex assets since outsourcing through service contract reduces upfront investments in infrastructure, expertise and specialised maintenance facilities. Estimation of costs for such contracts is complex and it is important to the user and the service providers for economic variability. The servi...