In this paper we extend the control methodology based on Extended Markov Tracking (EMT) by providing the control algorithm with capabilities to calibrate and even partially reconstruct the environment’s model. This enables us to resolve the problem of performance deterioration due to model incoherence, a problem faced in all model-based control methods. The new algorithm, Ensemble Actions EMT (...

The International System of Units (SI) is supposed to be coherent. That is, when a combination of units is replaced by an equivalent unit, there is no additional numerical factor. Here we consider dimensionless units as defined in the SI, e.g. angular units like radians or steradians and counting units like radioactive decays or molecules. We show that an incoherence may arise when different un...

The right not to know is often defended on the basis of the principle of respect for personal autonomy. If I choose not to acquire personal information that impacts on my future prospects, such a choice should be respected, because I should be able to decide whether to access information about myself and how to use it. But, according to the incoherence objection to the right not to know in the ...

In this event-related brain potential (ERP) study, we examined how semantic and referential aspects of anaphoric noun phrase resolution interact during discourse comprehension. We used a full factorial design that crossed referential ambiguity with semantic incoherence. Ambiguous anaphors elicited a sustained negative shift (Nref effect), and incoherent anaphors elicited an N400 effect. Simulta...

IN "Truth" (1990), I (1) showed how "relativistic truth" in marketing's early crisis literature was grounded in Kuhn's (1962) seeming adoption of both reality and conceptual framework relativism, (2) reported that when Kuhn recognized that these relativisms implied nihilism and solipsism, he revised his conceptualization of incommensurability to the point where it was nonproblematic for objecti...

A model for synchronization of globally coupled phase oscillators including "inertial" effects is analyzed. In such a model, both oscillator frequencies and phases evolve in time. Stationary solutions include incoherent (unsynchronized) and synchronized states of the oscillator population. Assuming a Lorentzian distribution of oscillator natural frequencies, g(Omega), both larger inertia or lar...

Predictive sparse coding algorithms recently have demonstrated impressive performance on a variety of supervised tasks, but they lack a learning theoretic analysis. We establish the first generalization bounds for predictive sparse coding. In the overcomplete dictionary learning setting, where the dictionary size k exceeds the dimensionality d of the data, we present an estimation error bound t...

Compressive sampling is an emerging technique that promises to effectively recover a sparse signal from far fewer measurements than its dimension. The compressive sampling theory assures almost an exact recovery of a sparse signal if the signal is sensed randomly where the number of the measurements taken is proportional to the sparsity level and a log factor of the signal dimension. Encouraged...