This paper presents an overview of the COVE model, a computational model of learning that integrates models from Cognitive science, the OCEAN model of psychology, OCC model of emotions, Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic perception and the Environment (social and physical expectations). The model enables software agents in an example application – simSchool to possess some of the emotional, psychologi...

Especially since the passage of the Riegle-Neal Act in 1994, community banks increasingly face large, multistate holding company (MSHC) rivals in the local markets in which they operate. These large MSHCs more often operate through interstate branches, rather than through the offices of a separate subsidiary headquartered in-state. Disagreement persists about the likely effects of this trend on...

The probability approach to uncertainty and modeling is applied to default probability estimation. This issue has attracted attention as banks contemplate the requirements of Basel II’s IRB rules. Nicholas M. Kiefer proposes the fomal introduction of expert information into quantitative analysis. An application treating the incorporation of expert information on the default probability is consi...

The interference graph for a procedure in Static Single Assignment (SSA) Form is chordal. Since the k-colorability problem can be solved in polynomial-time for chordal graphs, this result has generated interest in SSA-based heuristics for spilling and coalescing. Since copies can be folded during SSA construction, instances of the coalescing problem under SSA have fewer affinities than traditio...

This study attempts to investigate sociotechnical gaps in online collaborative consumption (OCC) to improve user experience and provide better design requirements. A new approach is proposed to evaluate usability and sociability of the OCC communities. The formation of social capital within OCC will also be studied to gain insights into design requirements. Due to its features as a community wh...

In this paper we argue that a model of human emotions provide reasonable and useful heuristics for 1) reducing and controlling nondeterminism involved in an agent’s decision making process, 2) flexible cooperation and coordination between agents, and 3) building efficacious human-agent interfaces to facilitate the interaction between human users and artificial agents in hybrid multi-agent syste...

Ontogenetic colour change (OCC) may signal a switch in defensive strategies across development. Commonly, juveniles use cryptic colours and transition to conspicuous coloration as adults. Extensive theoretical and empirical work suggest such a transition is more likely than the converse. Oreophryne ezra, a newly discovered frog from New Guinea, however, undergoes OCC that belies expectations. W...

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling framework that allows two or more parties to establish, alter, and terminate various types of media sessions. The mechanism employed by the standard SIP is not e ective in handling overload situations that occur when the incoming ow of requests overcomes the processing resources of the server. In this paper we present a local overload control...

This paper investigates using a fuzzy appraisal approach to model the dynamics for the emotion generation process of individuals. The proposed computational model uses guidelines from OCC emotion theory to formulate a system of fuzzy inferential rules that is capable of predicting the elicitation of different emotions as well as tracking the changes in the emotional response levels as a result ...