Development of cognitive architecture where the agents at different levels exhibit different levels of thinking. The paper primarily focus on building the skill tree at the learning layer of the architecture. These include the discovery of one’s own body, including its structure and dynamics. Also the acquisition of associated cognitive skills such as self and non-self-distinction. This can be ...

We present a new formulation of the tour scheduling problem with assignment costs that are a function of employee capabilities. The objective also incorporates a quadratic term to encourage compact shifts and equal interday shift lengths for each employee. The problem is solved using a tabu-like probabilistic local search algorithm. The algorithm is applied in two phases with employee conflicts...

Based on the situation of the construction and software industry, this paper presents a multi-skilled human resource scheduling model which considers the skill and the salary of the workforce at different levels. It introduces a novel cuckoo search (CS)-based approach to optimize the objective function which combines the minimization of the makespan and the project cost. The proposed approach t...

In this paper, we define a set inequalities that are satisfied by stable multi-skill workforce schedules. In our analysis, a schedule is said to be stable if it does not contain a blocking pair, extending the notion of blocking pair in the Marriage Model of Gale-Shapley. Skill efficiency is chosen as the criterion in the preference structure. The proposed algorithm either constructs a stable mu...

Efficient project planning from a human resource point of view requires projectoriented organization forms to take into account the permanent change of requirements and framework conditions during the duration of a project correctly. Skill management systems are an excellent management tool for this challenge, if in addition to default skill profiles the employees' competence and experience roo...

[1] We compare versions of six interpolation methods for the interpolation of daily precipitation, mean, minimum and maximum temperature, and sea level pressure from station data over Europe from 1961 to 1990. The interpolation methods evaluated are global and local kriging, two versions of angular distance weighting, natural neighbor interpolation, regression, 2D and 3D thin plate splines, and...

To learn to read is to acquire a visual language skill that systematically maps onto extant spoken language skills. Some children perform this task quite adeptly, while others encounter much difficulty, and it has become a question of both scientific and practical merit to ask why there exists such a range of success in learning to read. Obviously, learning to read places a complex burden on ma...

While the need for hierarchies within control systems is apparent, it is also clear to many researchers that such hierarchies should be learned. Learning both the structure and the component behaviors is a diicult task. The beneet of learning the hierarchical structures of behaviors is that the decomposition of the control structure into smaller transportable chunks allows previously learned kn...