WINTER 2011 39 The way people interact with robots appears to be fundamentally different from how they interact with most other technologies. People tend to ascribe a level of intelligence and sociability to robots that influences their perceptions of how the interactions should proceed. If a robot, for its part, adheres to this ascription, then the interactions tend to be natural and engaging;...

One of the most critical issues for wind energy exploitation is high variability resource, resulting in very difficult forecasting power that farms can grant. A vast literature has therefore been devoted to speed and quantitative forecasting, using different techniques. The widely used statistical learning models are based on a continuation future series’ past behaviour offer performance may be...

Too much stress is easy to do harm to the physical and psychological health of teenagers, because most teenagers neither have the ability to cope with the stress by themselves nor like seeking adults’ help initiatively. Social media has demonstrated its feasibility in detecting teenagers’ stress with the micro-blog having become a popular channel for teenagers’ self-expression. In this demonstr...

Many evolutionary computation methods applied to the financial field have been reported. A new evolutionary method named ‘‘Genetic Network Programming” (GNP) has been developed and applied to the stock market recently. The efficient trading rules created by GNP has been confirmed in our previous research. In this paper a multi-brands portfolio optimization model based on Genetic Network Program...

Chandelier cells form inhibitory axo-axonic synapses on pyramidal neurons with their characteristic candlestick-like axonal terminals. The functional role of chandelier cells is still unclear, although the preferential loss of this cell type at epileptic loci suggests a role in epilepsy. Here we report an examination of whisker- and spontaneous activity-evoked responses in chandelier cells and ...

We present a new approach to a componentware development methodology based on a system of process patterns. We argue that organizing the development process by means of a pattern system results in higher flexibility compared to traditional ways of defining development processes. This is especially important in the context of componentware. Finally, we propose a pattern catalog with a selection ...