We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that subjects’ behavior in the classic lab public good experiment correlates with their behavior in the structurally comparable public good treatment in the fie...

The course activities are anchored around project work which expands over two quarters. In the projects the students are supposed to solve demanding real-life problems whose specification and solution requires active end-user participation. There can be two types of project providers: 1) Partners from industry. 2) Researchers or research labs from our university. Project providers, who wish to ...

In contrast to most previous studies conducted on artificial data with archetypal emotions, this paper addresses some of the challenges faced when studying real-life non-basic emotions. A 10-hour dialog corpus recorded in a French Medical emergency call center has been studied. In this paper, our aim is twofold, to study emotion mixtures in natural data and to achieve high level of performances...

Six months ago, Alastair Simpson and Andrew Roger published in these pages a primer on “The real ‘kingdoms’ of eukaryotes”. This Primer should be seen as a companion to theirs, addressing not only the currently accepted classification of prokaryotes, but also the inferred evolutionary relationships among prokaryotes — Bacteria and Archaea — and between them and eukaryotes. It may seem surprisin...

In real life scientific and engineering problems decision making is common practice. Decision making include single decision maker or group of decision makers. Decision maker’s expressions consists imprecise, inconsistent and indeterminate information. Also, the decision maker cannot select the best solution in unidirectional (single goal) way. Therefore, proposed model adopts decision makers’ ...

The problems in Harold Walker’s latest essay, amusingly titled “The Facts of Life”, start with his very first line: Digital Modulation is usually a form of pulse modulation, of which, there are two types-Pulse Width and Pulse position. What about pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), phase shift keying (PSK) and frequency shift keying (FSK), just to mention a few others? All pulses are analyzed by ...

Projectile motion is a fundamental concept in basic physics courses. The often used simplified calculations, where air resistance is neglected, are obviously not relevant for many real life events. Using a video camera and computer software, students can investigate the influence of air resistance on for instance the trajectory of a football. The video sequences are digitised and the xand y-pos...

The first part of this paper explores the general issues in using Artificial Life techniques to program actual mobile robots. In particular it explores the difficulties inherent in transferring programs evolved in a simulated environment to run on an actual robot. It examines the dual evolution of organism morphology and nervous systems in biology. It proposes techniques to capture some of the ...

This paper presents an innovative approach to curriculum-based timetabling. Curricula are defined by a rich model that includes optional courses and course groups among which students are expected to take a subset of courses. Transformation of the curriculum model into the enrollment model is proposed and a local search algorithm generating corresponding enrollments is introduced. This enables ...