Recent studies showed that self-other integration, as indexed by the joint Simon effect (JSE), can be modulated by biasing participants towards particular (integrative vs. exclusive) cognitive-control states. Interestingly, there is evidence suggesting that such control states can be induced by particular odors: stimulating odors (e.g., peppermint aroma) seem to induce a more focused, exclusive...

Performance and energy are critical aspects in high performance computing (HPC) data centers. Highly parallel HPC applications that require multiple nodes usually run for long durations in the range of minutes, hours or days. As the threads of parallel applications communicate with each other intensively, the communication cost of these applications has a significant impact on data center perfo...

Practitioners of agent-based modeling are often tasked to model or design self-organizing systems while the theoretical foundation of self-organization in science remains to be set. This paper explores self-organization in the context of an agent-based model of ant colony food foraging. We gather specific measures of order-creation and constraint construction particular to leading theories of n...

This paper studies the geometry of multi-image perspective projection and the matching constraints that this induces on image measurements. The combined image projections define a 3D joint image subspace of the space of combined homogeneous image coordinates. This is a complete projective replica of the 3D world in image coordinates. Its location encodes the imaging geometry and is captured by ...

Planning is an everyday activity that is extended in time and space, yet is frequently studied in the absence of interactivity. Successful planning relies on an array of executive functions including self-control. We investigated the effects of interactivity and self-control on planning using a sequential-task paradigm. Half of the participants first completed a video-viewing task requiring sel...

Whilst travelling in South Africa a couple of years ago, I was introduced by family friends to a late middle aged woman, the mother of a musician and a bit of a hippy with a deep interest in jazz, with whom it was assumed I would have much in common, and in the ensuing conversation she breathlessly proclaimed that there were an infinite number of chords. Of course, I immediately disagreed and t...

Oxidative stress (OS) as a proximate mechanism for life-history trade-offs is widespread in the literature. One such resource allocation trade-off involves growth rate, and theory suggests that OS might act as both a constraint on and a cost of growth, yet studies investigating this have produced conflicting results. Here, we use meta-analysis to investigate whether increased OS levels impact o...

Projection-onto-constraint sets is an efficient algorithm for constructing synthetic discriminant functions to be employed in pattern-recognition systems. The algorithm is implemented by a digital procedure based on a simulated joint-transform correlator.

A novel adaptation of impact-based search strategies for constraint-based resource scheduling is presented. Search based on impacts applies a general purpose search strategy originally from Linear Integer Programming and recently adapted to Constraint Programming. To my knowledge it is shown for the first time that this strategy is properly applicable to constraint-based scheduling and performs...