The Baldwin Effect indicates that individually learned behaviours acquired during an organism’s lifetime can influence the evolutionary path taken by a population, without any direct Lamarckian transfer of traits from phenotype to genotype. Several computational studies modelling this effect have included complications that restrict its applicability. Here we present a simplified model that is ...

Due to the significant increase in IT-related power consumption and the resulting higher CO2 emissions, Green IT has gained considerable attention in industry and society in recent years. Green IT as an engineering paradigm encompasses the multifaceted, global effort to reduce power consumption and the promotion of environmental sustainability. Due to several similarities between Green IT objec...

Two hypotheses were tested: 1) Increasing the overlap between a coronal and a following non-coronal can result in the coronal gesture being heard as reduced in magnitude. 2) This relation does not hold for a noncoronal followed by a coronal. Computational models were used to generate and "listen" to several tokens of the test sequences "bad ban" and "bab Dan," which varied in their combinations...