In the present study, we investigate and analyze the behavior of explorer agents. We perform a number of experiments with single and multiple agents and we obtain a number of corresponding results. First, we decouple the agent’s functional=motivational system from its cognitive=representational system and show that intricate regulation is necessary to achieve effective and efficient behavior. I...

The purpose of this paper is to cast a vision for the next generation of behavioral health and criminal justice interventions for persons with serious mental illnesses in the criminal justice system. The limitations of first generation interventions, including their primary focus on mental health treatment connection, are discussed. A person-place framework for understanding the complex factors...

PURPOSE A key goal of this paper is to illustrate the impact of behavioral medicine on the factors that influence population health. A second goal is to consider the delicate balance between relevance and excellence as we bring our science to bear on important social and public health problems. If we are to increase the translation of our evidence and accelerate our impact, we must increase our...

Changes in customer’s behavioural patterns, rapid technological development and increasing competition are just some of the reason to why changes in organisations’ environment are occurring more frequently. Forming and realizing new strategies then become a central concern for most organisations. However, even though organisations are constantly working with these issues today, 50-70% of new st...

This paper develops a model and implementation plan for using ICT (Information and Communication Technology) combined with Predictive and Behavioral Analytics to build demand for more sustainable power consumption in the community as a small 100-year-old power company upgrades to using consumer level smart meters in its geographically isolated rural mountain town. With the upgrade to smart mete...

We introduce a behavioral MATLAB simulation of a time-interleaved ADC. The simulation includes the main error sources of a time-interleaved ADC and works with continuous-time input signals and continuous-time input filters. We clarify how to implement the signal generation and how to connect the continuous-time and the discrete-time part of the time-interleaved ADC with high calculation precisi...

We present a technique to measure and detect changes in the behavioral patterns of applications. In a continually dynamically optimizing system, such information is useful not only to decide which program parts to optimize, but also which previously optimized program parts to re-optimize. This leads to a system that is better tailored towards users’ needs than statically optimized systems.

As amount of activities available for users and their variety have grown, personalised recommendation of activities sequences has become an important challenge. However, most of recommender systems do not consider temporal constraints of activities, making the recommendation hard for user to follow. In this article, we describe a novel approach for recommendation of competing activities limited...

This paper provides a simple autonomy-based model of human motivation in which a decision maker with divided selves must perform some task. The key presumption of the model is that the brain is not a unitary system which is equipped to achieve a single goal in a systematic manner; rather, it is more like an organizationwhich is hampered by several constraints such as preference incongruence and...

The development of communication in a population of agents is viewed as the behavior of a dynamical system. A deterministic communication system is shown, both experimentally and theoretically, to have point attractors that correspond to perfect communication. However, the determinism required for the presence of point at-tractors impedes the development of communication. A corresponding attrac...