This paper proposes a new way to study traffic flow at an urban unsignalised intersection, through detailed space considerations, using cellular automata (CA). Heterogeneity and inconsistency are simulated by incorporation of different categories of driver behaviour and reassignment of categories with given probabilities at each time step. The method is able to reproduce many features of urban ...

We present work towards a spoken-dialogue embodied companion system that behaves in a socially cooperative fashion, i.e., being attentive to communicative and social cues emitted by the user, inferring internal cognitive, affective and interactional states, and reciprocating with appropriately adapted behavior. It is argued that this capability is vital for fostering cooperative, effortless, an...

The analysis of programs by the exhaustive inspection of reachable states in a nite state graph is a well-understood procedure It is actually implemented in several industrial tools but one of their main limitations is the size of the memory needed to exhaustively build the state graphs of the programs. For numerous properties such as B uchi acceptance (in the deterministic case) and behavioral...

Through a comparison of two communities, this paper addresses village formation in frontier Campeche, Mexico. Mexico's village political unit, the ejido, allows farmers flexibility in deciding who may take up residence in their communities. The paper analyzes how established farmers employ ideas of ethnicity, family, and expectations of social strife to assess the longterm compatibility of newc...

Introduction The reinforced concrete tilt-up building is the most popular form of light industrial and low-rise commercial construction in the Western United States and is a significant portion of new construction nationwide. This popularity is primarily driven by the construction speed and economical nature of tilt-up construction. Architectural acceptance has become more widespread as tilt-up...

On the (im)possibility of improving upon the student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism by Onur Kesten and Morimitsu Kurino* This paper studies a general school choice problem with or without outside options. The Gale-Shapley student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism (DA) has played a central role not only in theory but also in important practical applications. We show that in proble...

aim and background: there is a relation between patients' levels of physical functioning and their acceptance of chronic pain. however, this relation has not been examined amongst iranian chronic pain patients. the purpose of this paper was to evaluate the relation between acceptance of chronic pain and physical disability. methods and materials: in a descriptive-correlational study, convenienc...

in recent years, the advancement of information and communication technologies and particularly rapid changes of mobile technologies lead to new applications and services. furthermore, the possibility of mobile service delivery will change its current applications. therefore, it is important to identify the user’s acceptance of mobile services; thus, it is necessary to determine the effective a...

We characterize a family of proposal-refusal school choice mechanisms, including the Boston, Shanghai, and Deferred Acceptance (DA) mechanisms as special cases. Moving from one extreme member towards the other results in a systematic change in the incentive properties and nested Nash equilibria. In the laboratory, the proportion of truth-telling follows DA > Shanghai > Boston. While DA is signi...