What is the ultimate nature of reality? This paper defends an answer in terms of informational realism (IR). It does so in three stages. First, it is shown that, within the debate about structural realism (SR), epistemic (ESR) and ontic (OSR) structural realism are reconcilable by using the methodology of the levels of abstractions. It follows that OSR is defensible from a structuralist-friendl...

In the context of virtual machines live migration, two strategies called “pre-copy” and “post-copy” have already been presented; but each of these strategies works well only in some circumstances. In this paper, we have a brief presentation of QAVNS and then introduce a new approach which is based on the concept of "informational object", assigning QAVNS-scheme-revision number, and observing th...

Accurate object segmentation in video is difficult. The dynamic nature of the medium causes drifts in the feature spaces traditionally used in segmentation of objects in still images. For example, colour distributions, shape models and motion tracks of objects typically vary and / or deteriorate over time, resulting in the need to explicitly correct the object by hand in every few frames. The p...

We study a unit-demand, common-value, affiliated-signals auction model with two objects. We derive symmetric equilibrium for the sequential second-price auction, with and without revelation of the first-round winning bid. We demonstrate that auctioning objects in sequence generates a lowballing effect that reduces first-round revenue. Thus, revenue is greater in a single-round uniform auction f...

We study sequential and single-round uniform-price auctions with a¢ liated values. We derive symmetric equilibrium for the auction in which k1 objects are sold in the …rst round and k2 in the second round, with and without revelation of the …rst-round winning bids. We demonstrate that auctioning objects in sequence generates a lowballing e¤ect that reduces the …rst-round price. Total revenue is...

This study investigates the extent to which prosodic cues are employed during online sentence production to distinguish three different notions of information structure (informational focus, corrective focus, and givenness) at two sentential focus locations (i.e. the subject and object positions). Participants were asked to describe pictures. The information status of the subject and object cha...

The fluctuations in a brain region's activation levels over a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) time-course are used in functional connectivity (FC) to identify networks with synchronous responses. It is increasingly recognized that multi-voxel activity patterns contain information that cannot be extracted from univariate activation levels. Here we present a novel analysis method tha...