We extend existing models and methods for the informational treatment of the perception-action loop to the case of goaloriented behaviour and introduce the notion of relevant goal information as the amount of information an agent necessarily has to maintain about its goal. Starting from the hypothesis that organisms use information economically, we study the structure of this information and ho...

Abstract Brazil is currently the largest contributor of land use and cover change (LULCC) carbon dioxide net emissions worldwide, representing 17%–29% global total. There is, however, a lack agreement among different methodologies on magnitude trends in LULCC their geographic distribution. Here we perform an evaluation datasets for Brazil, including those used annual budget (GCB), national Braz...

This article analyzes the accounting treatment of sales and purchasing at Fengshengtai Company (丰盛泰号), a salt trader from Shanxi Province. We find evidence “dualled entry” bookkeeping in that all transactions were recorded twice. Crucially, each set dualled entries was two distinct accounts. For example, cash “cash flowing account” as well specialized account. thus argue that, light clues other...

ProteinCCD (CCD for Crystallographic Construct Design) aims to facilitate a common practice in structural biology, namely the design of several truncation constructs of the protein under investigation, based on experimental data or on sequence analysis tools. ProteinCCD functions as a meta-server, available online at http://xtal.nki.nl/ccd, that collects information from prediction servers conc...

In this work we compare simple and ‘advanced’ algorithms that have been used to perform various functions in connection with constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). These include algorithms for arc consistency, singleton arc consistency, arc consistency used with MAC, maxRPC algorithms, and algorithms for simple table reduction with non-binary constraints. In each case tested so far, we find t...

We propose a novel approach to mixed-reality teleconferencing that focuses on 3D augmentations of multi-camera 2D video streams. We exchange information about the geometric layout of all participating meeting sites, as well as the camera parameters for surveying these spaces. We can then correctly overlay 3D graphics on top of the video feeds, representing meeting content as well as highlight a...

In this paper, we propose a framework for constructing adaptive wavelet decompositions using the lifting scheme. A major requirement is that perfect reconstruction is possible without any overhead cost. In this paper we restrict ourselves to the update lifting stage. It is assumed that the update lter utilises local gradient information to adapt itself to the signal in the sense that smaller gr...

Copyright 2014 by Stefan Kirchweger, Michael Eder and Jochen Kantelhardt. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Abstract In order to increase competitiveness of their farms, dairy farmers select certain strategies regarding input use. We identify these strat...