Research has established that nouns are assigned to gender classes as a function of meaning and shape (Corbett 1991, Comrie 1999). Once this point has been made for several individual languages, research should move towards the establishment of a typologically robust theory of gender assignment. One example of such a theory is optimal gender assignment theory (Rice 2004), which formalizes sever...

In electroencephalographic (EEG) source imaging as well as in transcranial current stimulation (TCS), it is common to model the head using either three-shell boundary element (BEM) or more accurate finite element (FEM) volume conductor models. Since building FEMs is computationally demanding and labor intensive, they are often extensively reused as templates even for subjects with mismatching a...

This paper is the second part of a two-part paper which introduces a general schema theory for genetic programming (GP) with subtree-swapping crossover (Part I (Poli and McPhee, 2003)). Like other recent GP schema theory results, the theory gives an exact formulation (rather than a lower bound) for the expected number of instances of a schema at the next generation. The theory is based on a Car...

A microgrid is composed of distributed power generation systems, distributed energy storge systems, loads as a small scale power system. Generally, the microgrid is operated by an energy management system (EMS). In this paper, a testing technique for a microgrid EMS using the hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) technique is introduced. Especially, the microgrid is composed of multiple buildi...

One of the purposes of consciousness is to acquire knowledge. The models of this task traditionally assume a division between the known and the knower, a division that leads into doubtful reasoning about some kind of (frequently disguised) homunculus. The current paper tries to avoid such fallacies by viewing the adaptation of the mind as an evolutionary process, a process distinct (but not ind...