Portable random event generators with software to record and index continuous sequences of binary data in field situations are found to produce anomalous outputs when deployed in various group environments. These "FieldREG" systems have been operated under formal protocols in ten separate venues, all of which subdivide naturally into temporal segments, such as sessions, presentations, or days. ...

Stochastic search algorithms are black-box optimizer of an objective function. They have recently gained a lot of attention in operations research, machine learning and policy search of robot motor skills due to their ease of use and their generality. However, when the task or objective function slightly changes, many stochastic search algorithms require complete re-learning in order to adapt t...

The situation calculus, as proposed by McCarthy and Hayes, and developed over the last decade by Reiter and co-workers, is reconsidered. A new logical variant is proposed that captures much of the expressive power of the original, but where certain technical results are much more easily proven. This is illustrated using two existing non-trivial results: the regression theorem and the determinac...

This paper presents a design principle for construction of an in-house multimodal corpus for computationally analysing and better understanding conversations during psychotherapy. We discuss some sharable information about research community data collection procedures such as recording devices, consent forms, and privacy considerations. We also explain multimodal coding schema and metadata that...