We argue that the introduction of memory imperfections into models of economic decision making creates a natural role for anticipatory emotions. The combination of memory imperfections and anticipatory emotions has striking behavioral implications. The first half of the paper shows that agents can rationally select dominated strategies. We consider two applications: Newcomb’s Paradox and the Pr...

We investigate the transition to quantum chaos, induced by static imperfections, for an operating quantum computer that simulates efficiently a dynamical quantum system, the sawtooth map. For the different dynamical regimes of the map, we discuss the quantum chaos border induced by static imperfections by analyzing the statistical properties of the quantum computer eigenvalues. For small imperf...

The analog parts of mixed analog-digital systems are always subject to some imperfections. Considering Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) analog circuits, the real transfer function is then practically different from the desired nominal one and includes some deviations. The goal of this paper is to offer a model which digitally estimates the deviations from typical values supposing that the only avail...

A. Murariu, S. Crâsteţi, National R&D Institute for Welding and Materials Testing ISIM Timisoara, Romania, I. Samardzic, Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Slavonski Brod, Croatia The paper presents Infrared Thermography (IRT) for non-destructive examination of the imperfections in the coatings layers deposited by Electric Arc Sprayin...

The generation of harmonics through a nonlinear mechanism driven by bunching at the fundamental has sparked interest in using this process as a path toward an X-ray free-electron laser (FEL). An important issue in this regard is the sensitivity of the nonlinear harmonic generation to wiggler imperfections. Typically, linear instabilities in FELs are characterized by increasing sensitivity to bo...

Reverse Engineering is a process fraught with imperfections. The importance of dealing with non-precise, possibly inconsistent data explicitly when interacting with the reverse engineer has been pointed out before. In this paper, we go one step further: we argue that the complete reverse engineering process must be augmented with a formal representation model capable of modeling imperfections. ...