 Inventory space requirements in remanufacturing facilities can vary significantly over time and by type of space needed due to variability in recaptured component quality, availability of refurbished components, remanufactured product demand, and returned product rates. Multi-period stochastic programming recourse models are developed to identify optimal adaptive schedules for internal, exter...

Live algorithms are computational systems made to perform in an improvised manner with human improvising musicians, typically using only live audio or MIDI streams as the medium of interaction. They are designed to establish meaningful musical interaction with their musical partners, without necessarily being conceived of as “virtual musicians”. This paper investigates, with respect to a specif...

Sublimating the transgressive atrocities of modern warfare in an enigmatic text written within a year outbreak WWI, art historian and architectural theorist Adolf Behne (1885-1948) takes recourse with humanity by tracing uncanny thresholds between human non-human as proliferated contemporary theories biology. Disguised manifesto-like book review biologist Jakob Johann von Uexküll’s Building Blo...

human language, over its evolutionary history, has emerged as one of the fundamental defining characteristic of the modern man. however, this milestone evolutionary process through natural selection has not left any ’linguistic fossils’ that may enable us to trace back the actual course of development of language and its establishment in human societies. lacking analytical tools to fathom the cr...

In the development of a speech understanding system, the recourse to stochastic techniques can greatly reduce the need for human expertise. A known disadvantage is that stochastic models require large annotated training corpora in order to reliably estimate model parameters. Manual semantic annotation of such corpora is tedious, expensive, and subject to inconsistencies. In order to decrease th...

It is shown that the forest-fire model of Bak et al. run on a square lattice network with additional long-range interactions in the spirit of a small-world network results in a scale-free system reminiscent of self-organized criticality without recourse to fine tuning. As the number of these long-range interactions is increased, the cluster size distribution exponent is found to decrease in mag...

At the beginning of the 20th century, Einstein revolutionized the notions of space and time, first through special relativity and then, a decade later, through general relativity. Conceptual ideas underlying general relativity are explained and its physical ramifications summarized in general terms, without recourse to advanced mathematics. This theory is perhaps the most sublime creation of th...

Building on principles of Value Sensitive Design, this paper presents a preliminary conceptual and technical investigation of privacy for location-enhanced computing. The following features are considered: directionality of information flow, information management, interpretability, awareness, control, scope of disclosure, and risk & recourse. Each feature is considered at three levels of syste...