It is well known that even extremely limited centerembedding causes people to have difficulty ill comprehension, but that leftand right-branching constractions produce no such effect. If the difficulty in comprehension is taken to be a result of processing load, as is widely assumed, then measuring the processing load induced by a parsing strategy on these constructions may help determine its p...

We invest igate two real izat ions of paral lel abduct ive reasoning systems using the model generat ion theorem prover M G T P . The f irst one, called the M G T P + M G T P method , is a co-operat ive problem-solv ing archi tecture in wh ich model generat ion and consistency checking communicate w i t h each other. There , paral lel ism is explo i ted by checking consistencies in paral le l ....

We present a skill learning model CLARION. Different from existing models of high-level skill learning that use a topdown approach (that is, turning declarative knowledge into procedural knowledge), we adopt a bottom-up approach toward low-level skill learning, where procedural knowledge develops first and declarative knowledge develops later. CLARION is formed by integrating connectionist, rei...

In this paper we propose a bottom-up model of decision strategy selection, We assume that working memory capacity plays a crucial role in shaping predecisional information processing. Moreover, we assume that the often postulated repertoire of choice strategies can be explained as an expression of one strategy performed with different working memory limits. A mathematical model of this process ...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2008.09.037 * Tel.: +90 312 2901702. E-mail address: [email protected]. In this study, we analyze the replenishment decisions under a general replenishment cost structure that includes stepwise freight costs and all-units quantity discounts. We first formulate a general model that accounts for a larger class of problems an...

This paper looks into the communications capabilities that are required by distributed multimedia applications to achieve relation preserving information exchange. These capabilities are derived by analyzing the notion of 'information exchange' and are embodied in communications functionalities. To emphasize the importance of the users' view, a top-down approach is applied. The (revised) OSI Ap...

A nanogrid is a very small electricity domain that is distinct from any other grid it is connected to in voltage, reliability, quality, or price. Nanogrids could form the basis of a future electricity system built on a bottom-up, decentralized, and distributed network model rather than the top-down centralized grid we have today in most parts of the world. This document introduces the idea of a...