This study explores the extent to which 29 individual sexual behaviors, previously identified in L. Alison, P. Santtila, N. K. Sandnabba, and N. Nordling (2001), as each being associated with 1 of 4 different broad themes of sadomasochistically oriented behavior, represent different scales of intensity within each theme. The themes were as follows: hypermasculinity, administration and receipt o...

Facial behaviors represent activities of face or facial feature in spatial or temporal space, such as facial expressions, face pose, gaze, and furrow happenings. An automated system for facial behavior recognition is always desirable. However, it is a challenging task due to the richness and ambiguity in daily facial behaviors. This paper presents an efficient approach to real-world facial beha...

Recently, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has received significant attention. SOA simulation can play an important role in SOA software development as it can be used to verify the SOA application models and to demonstrate runtime and collaborative behaviors of the SOA applications. SOA simulation differs from traditional simulation as it emphasizes on reusability, collaborative behaviors, a...

We describe a methodology for the construction and validation of embedded systems with real-time constraints. Our methodology is based on object-oriented techniques and synchronous programming. This greatly eases the use of formal veriication to analyse the system, particularly to support design decisions. We use model checking to verify reactive behaviors and theorem proving to verify datatype...

Services are becoming increasingly important in modern economies. Information technology provides most of the needed infrastructure to support the proper delivery of these services. In this paper, we adopt Covey’s [1] behaviors for trust to help improve the trustworthiness of IT-based service-oriented organizations. We develop checklists to qualitatively assess the level of trustworthiness of t...

We propose a robotic cognitive control framework that exploits supervisory attention and contention scheduling for flexible and adaptive orchestration of structured tasks. Specifically, in the proposed system, top-down and bottom-up attentional processes are exploited to modulate the execution of hierarchical robotic behaviors conciliating goal-oriented and reactive behaviors. In this context, ...