A novel action-dependent adaptive critic design (ACD) is developed for dynamic optimization. The proposed combination of a particle swarm optimization-based actor and a neural network critic is demonstrated through dynamic sleep scheduling of wireless sensor motes for wildlife monitoring. The objective of the sleep scheduler is to dynamically adapt the sleep duration to node's battery capacity ...

This article replies to the main objections raised by the commentators on Carruthers (1998a). It discusses the question of what evidence is relevant to the assessment of dispositional higher-order thought (HOT) theory; it explains how the actual properties of phenomenal consciousness can be dispositionally constituted; it discusses the case of pains and other bodily sensations in non-human anim...

Formal game modeling tools could support the automated analysis of game rules and rapid automated playtesting, but are not widely used. Furthermore, existing game design support tools are often limited to very specific classes of game, require significant programming expertise to use or customize, or are fully-automatic tools with limited affordances for human designers. We therefore propose a ...

First of all, thanks are due to Jonathan Havercroft for extending the invitation to discuss A Theory of Contestation at the “Author Meets Critics” panel at the American Political Science Association meeting in San Francisco in 2015, and for subsequently putting together this symposium. Needless to say, I am also incredibly thankful and humbled by the serious engagement and the exceedingly insig...

dr. mohammad mahdi al-baser is one of more learned in arabic and modern iraqi literature, to accompany contemporary critique school which injected the ideas of east and west, whereas to excel in it by his liberty, morality, and educationally criticism, to stopped in it lift up the inherited gaps and the stumbles. he battled against the slump, and exaggeration, and arbitrary. his style was disti...

The process of internationalization and awareness the other are procedures presently existing strategies in higher education. Currently, as a part transcultural education, growing amount alternative cross-border educational programs offered. Critics have suggested that practices focus less on contemporary gender issues international educations than language culture. Globally, employees health s...

Traditionally critiquing messages in Domain Oriented Design Environments are presented as text in a window to which all critics send their message. In this paper alternative methods for presenting critiquing messages in a direct manipulation style will be discussed. Critics which change the shape of the cursor, indicate relations of objects, change the visible properties of the objects, modify ...

Several works on film theory and screenwriting practice take up the question of repetition within narrative. However, few if any, have articulated theories about the relationship between the repetition of the words that comprise the screenplay itself and repetition of the themes that lend coherence to the narrative. In this study we address this gap in the screenwriting and film literature. Spe...

This study is a corpus-assisted investigation concerning the functions of the formulaic sequence just kidding and its variants (e.g., only kidding, just joking, JK) in spoken and written American English. We identified 1200 instances of this phrase from multiple corpora representing a range of modalities (Contemporary Corpus of American English, Global Web-Based English corpus, The Santa Barbar...

Perceptual and acoustic research on dialect variation in the United States requires an appropriate corpus of spoken language materials. Existing speech corpora that include dialect variation are limited by poor recording quality, small numbers of talkers, and/or small samples of speech from each talker. The Nationwide Speech Project corpus was designed to contain a large amount of speech produc...