Cognition of technical systems, as the ability to perceive situations, to learn about favorable behavior, and to autonomously generate decisions, adds new attributes to safety issues. The system can cope with heavily changing conditions but its future behavior is not known a-priori. Therefore, present software solutions to safety like a comprehensive analysis of the specification and its implem...

In the recent functional linguistic literature, the notion of syntactic complexity and similar concepts have received considerable attention. Yet, when trying to operationalize syntactic complexity as an independent variable in statistical research designs, it soon emerges that the notion is somewhat underdefined. I will report the results from an experiment comparing three measures of syntacti...

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously-formed partnerships facing a social dilemma. Treatments vary in terms of the individual’s: (1) opportunity to commit to their partner; (2) the cost of dissolving committed partnerships; and (3) the distribution of these dissolution costs between partners. Our findings show that pledg...

This paper introduces a new approach to the control of robot manipulators in a way that is safe for humans in the robot's workspace. Conceptually the robot is viewed as a tool with limited autonomy. The limited perception capabilities of automatic systems prohibits the construction of failsafe robots with the capabilities of people. Instead, the goal of our control scheme is to make the interac...

In a software system, dynami adaptability is the ability for dynami adaptation on runtime environments. A software system with dynami adaptability an adapt itself to the hanges of runtime environments by hanging its own behavior in dynami & exible way. We have proposed a software model with dynami adaptability named DAS and its des ription language named LEAD++. We an use LEAD++ as a s ript lan...

steel structures are usually built with some defects. according to the standard building codes, the central axes of the bracing members should go through the beam-column joints, however, in most of the braced steel structures, bracing members are unintentionally connected eccentrically. this paper presents a numerical investigation on performance analysis of cbfs (concentrically braced frames) ...

Despite being one of the healthiest developmental periods, morbidity and mortality rates increase dramatically during adolescence, largely due to preventable, risky behaviors. Heightened reward sensitivity, coupled with ineffective cognitive control, has been proposed to underlie adolescents' risk taking. In this study, we test whether reward sensitivity can be redirected to promote safe behavi...