We present a technique to measure and detect changes in the behavioral patterns of applications. In a continually dynamically optimizing system, such information is useful not only to decide which program parts to optimize, but also which previously optimized program parts to re-optimize. This leads to a system that is better tailored towards users’ needs than statically optimized systems.

As amount of activities available for users and their variety have grown, personalised recommendation of activities sequences has become an important challenge. However, most of recommender systems do not consider temporal constraints of activities, making the recommendation hard for user to follow. In this article, we describe a novel approach for recommendation of competing activities limited...

This paper provides a simple autonomy-based model of human motivation in which a decision maker with divided selves must perform some task. The key presumption of the model is that the brain is not a unitary system which is equipped to achieve a single goal in a systematic manner; rather, it is more like an organizationwhich is hampered by several constraints such as preference incongruence and...

This paper introduces valency as an adaptive mechanism. It has been previously hypothesised that valency assesses the agent’s behavioural patterns and guides adaptation. However, we argue that it acts furthermore as a mechanism guiding the interaction between learning and evolution. Unlike previous studies, we hypothesise that behaviour related information must be underspecified in the genes an...

Although households are responsible for many important decisions, they have rarely been the subject of economics experiments. We conduct a series of linked and incentivized experiments on decision-making, designed to see if the anomalies typically found in individual choice experiments are found when the subjects are couples from long-term relationships. Specifically we investigate the endowmen...

In this report, the authors propose a method of designing behavioral patterns analogically. We applied this method to design a wavelike behavior of a robot arm based on the movement of a snake. In order for the behavioral pattern being designed by the analogical method to have more creativity, we introduced behavioral criteria to extend this behavior design method.

Spatial construction—creating or copying spatial arrangements—is a hallmark of human spatial cognition. Spatial construction appears early in development, predicts later spatial and mathematical skills, and is used throughout life. Despite its importance, we know little about the cognitive processes underlying skilled construction. Construction tasks are highly complex but analyses have tended ...

objectives: to determine the behavioral pattern of golestan university of medical science (gums) students as pedestrian and car occupants in relation to traffic law based on health belief model. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed during 2012 in gums. a total of 370 students of gums were selected using multi-stage sampling method including stratified and random sampling. data were...

This paper proposes the learning behavioral Petri nets (LBPN) to model learning behavior in web-based environments. Fully useful records of learning behaviors must contain their expended time and corresponding contents. Therefore, the LBPN extends the colored tokens of colored Petri nets to identify learners and learning contents, and raises the time variable to represent diverse learning times...