Orthogonal Cross Cylinder (OCC) is an object created by intersecting the cylinder of Y-axis and the cylinder of the Z-axis. OCC mapping is a new method for effectively mapping the environment. This method eliminates the singularity effect caused in the environment maps and shows an almost even amount of area for the environment occupied by a single texel. The surrounding environment can also be...

A firm's cash flow policies, which manage working capital in the form of cash receivables from customers, inventory holdings, and cash payments to suppliers, are inexorably linked to the firm's operations. Building on earlier research, this study: (i) extends prior studies by examining the relationships between changes in cash flow measures and changes in firm financial performance using a long...

This article presents a logical formalization of the emotional appraisal theory, i.e., it formalizes the cognitive process of evaluation that elicits an emotion. This formalization is psychologically grounded on the OCC cognitive model of emotions. More specifically, we are interested in event-based emotions, i.e., emotions that are elicited by the evaluation of the consequences of an event tha...

T he organization of bank regulation in the United States is somewhat peculiar. Banks answer to an array of regulators, both federal and state. To begin with, a bank can choose a national or a state charter. National banks are regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). State banks are regulated by their home states, as well as by a federal regulator. The Federal Reserve S...

Driver assistance systems are designed to support a human driver in the driving task. Since drivers are very different, the assistance system must adapt to the driver in order to provide the best support. The driver adaptive assistance systems which are currently designed provide adaptability which is generally done by the driver himself. Some already provide automatical adaptation. One of the ...

Artists use words, lines, shapes, color, sound and their bodies to express emotions. Virtual humans use postures, gestures, face and voice to express emotions. Why are they limiting themselves to the body? The digital medium affords the expression of emotions using lights, camera, sound and the pixels in the screen itself. Thus, leveraging on accumulated knowledge from the arts, this work propo...

Integrating emotional agent into virtual learning environment is a flourishing research topic to assist the pedagogical applications. However, most of existing emotional agents still lack of a straightforward and understandable computational strategy for both educational experts and developers. In this paper, we integrate an emotional agent into a pedagogical project which uses OCC-based rules ...

Humans are going to delegate the rights of driving to the autonomous vehicles in near future. However, to fulfill this complicated task, there is a need for a mechanism, which enforces the autonomous vehicles to obey the road and social rules that have been practiced by well-behaved drivers. This task can be achieved by introducing social norms compliance mechanism in the autonomous vehicles. T...

This paper proposes using a fuzzy appraisal approach to model the dynamics for the emotion generation process in an individual as a result of events that take place in the environment of the individual. The proposed computational model uses guidelines from OCC emotion theory to formulate a system of fuzzy inferential rules that is capable of tracking the emotional states of the agent. Events ar...