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What Makes Finite-State Models More (or Less) Testable?

Typically, these kinds of questions are answered with reference to the inherent properties of the assessment mechanism. For example, Lowry et.al. [7] and Menzies & Cukic [8] contrast the costs and defect detection decay rates of formal methods, white box testing, and black box testing. That analysis made assumptions about the completeness of the search and the cost of setting up each run. A dra...

When More Evidence Makes Word Learning Less Suspicious

One challenging problem that children overcome in learning new words is recognizing the hierarchical category of a label. For instance, one object could be called a Dalmatian, a dog, or an animal. Xu and Tenenbaum (2007) proposed a Bayesian model to explain how 3.5 to 5-year-olds solve this ambiguity. They emphasized children's appreciation for “suspicious coincidences:” a label applied to thre...

Making Light Forces Smaller/More Dispersible Has Benefits But Makes Them More Vulnerable and Less Capable

IN CHAPTER THREE WE EXAMINED some relatively near-term upgrades to improve the capability of light forces when placed in rapid-reaction missions, working mostly with RFPI concepts and technologies within the context of ACTDs. But what would be the impact of changing concepts—for example, making light forces smaller and more dispersed? Given that the dramatic improvements in precision-guided and...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Less is more… (more or less…).

In April 1981 Xerox introduced the Star 8010 workstation, the first commercial system with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the first to use the “desktop” metaphor to organize a user’s interactions with the computer. Despite the perception of huge progress, from the perspective of design and usage models, there has been precious little progress in the intervening years. In the tradition of ...