Many supervisory control systems require the operator to solve any problems that the system’s automation cannot accommodate. Consequently, this class of systems would benefit from designs and methods which improve operator problem solving performance. Currently, human factors researchers develop designs and methods emphasizing the cognitive capacities and abilities of operators. For the most pa...

Our task is to adopt a multidisciplinary view of trust within and between firms, in an effort to synthesize and give insight into a fundamental construct of organizational science. We seek to identify the shared understandings of trust across disciplines, while recognizing that the divergent meanings scholars bring to the study of trust also can add value. Disciplinary differences characterizin...

When presented with a task or stimulus, the ongoing activity in the brain is perturbed in order to process the new information of the environment. Typical characteristics of this evoked activity are (1) an increase in firing rate of neurons, (2) a decrease in trial-by-trial variability and (3) an increase or decrease in spike count correlations. Considering the importance of variability and cor...

Mesoscale eddies in the ocean mix fluid parcels in a way that is highly constrained by the stratified nature of the fluid—so much so that much of our intuition about ocean mixing comes from thinking in density coordinates. Temporal-residual-mean (TRM) theory provides the link between the different views that are apparent from averaging turbulent flow in height coordinates and in density coordin...

Inspired by the notion of surprise for unconventional discovery we introduce a general search algorithm we name surprise search as a new method of evolutionary divergent search. Surprise search is grounded in the divergent search paradigm and is fabricated within the principles of evolutionary search. The algorithm mimics the self-surprise cognitive process and equips evolutionary search with t...

Recent evidence has questioned the integrity of episodic memory in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), where recall performance is impaired to the same extent as in Alzheimer's disease (AD). While these deficits appear to be mediated by divergent patterns of brain atrophy, there is evidence to suggest that certain prefrontal regions are implicated across both patient groups. In...

The relationship between risk-taking and creativity is critical to understanding social harmony and innovation. While some studies have assessed the link between risk-taking and divergent thinking, the association between risk-taking and convergent thinking remains unclear. Two studies were conducted to systemically investigate whether risk-taking is linked to convergent thinking. In Study 1, a...

Creativity is needed in almost everything we do. In the process of product design, it is very important to concept generation in early phases. Two behavioral studies were conducted to investigate whether environments with emotional stimuli would influence creativity, and in particular divergent thinking capacity. The stimuli independently considered were music and pictures. These stimuli sets h...

Many-Task Computing (MTC) is a widely used computing paradigm for large-scale task-parallel processing. One of the key issues in MTC is to schedule a large number of independent tasks onto heterogeneous resources. Traditional task-level scheduling heuristics, like Min-Min, Sufferage and MaxStd, cannot readily be applied in this scenario. As most of MTC tasks are usually fine-grained, the resour...