To behave adaptively, an organism must balance the accurate maintenance of information stored in working memory with the ability to update that information when the context changes. This trade-off between fidelity and flexibility may depend upon the anticipated likelihood that updating will be necessary. To address the neurobiological basis of anticipatory optimization, we acquired functional m...

Four different error-forecast updating models are investigated in terms of their capability of providing real-time river flow forecast accuracy superior to that of rainfall-runoff models applied in the simulation (nonupdating) mode. The first and most widely used is the single autoregressive (AR) model, the second being an elaboration of that model, namely the autoregressive-threshold (AR-TS) u...

The paper studies the continuity of rules for updating imprecise probability models when new data are observed. Discontinuities can lead to robustness issues: this is the case for the usual updating rules of the theory of imprecise probabilities. An alternative, continuous updating rule is introduced.

in this paper, a formal model for antivirus update agent system is presented based on mobile agent technology and predicate/transition petri nets. the mobile agent system contains two mobile agents called dca and una. it sends out agents to update antivirus on client computers in a network. each agent takes on a specified responsibility. first, dca roams through the network and check the last d...

Belief Updating Algorithms There are several algorithms for exact belief updating, for example, the polytree algorithm, clustering (Pearl 1988) or the Jensen tree method (Jensen, Lauritzen, & Olesen 1989). However, approximate methods are often preferred because the complexity of exact updating is NP-hard. Approximate updating is usually done by stochastic simulation (Pearl 1988). Variants incl...

The Ising-like phase transition is considered in probabilistic cellular automata (CA). The nonequilibrium CA with Toom rule are compared to standard equilibrium lattice systems to verify influence of synchronous vs asynchronous updating. It was observed by Marcq et al. [Phys.Rev.E 55(1997) 2606] that the mode of updating separates systems of coupled map lattices into two distinct universality c...

Evidence evolves as new research becomes available, and thus systematic reviews should be kept up to date to maintain their relevance and validity. However, the decision to update a systematic review should be made carefully because updating is potentially resource intensive, and updating too soon could introduce bias. In contrast, if reviews are not updated frequently enough, doctors and polic...

This study examines how IT professionals cope with the threat of professional obsolescence and how organizations may play a role in helping IT professionals cope with this threat. In answering these questions, this study draws on theories of occupational stress, specifically the theory of conservation of resources (Hobfoll 2002; Hobfoll et al. 1993), to relate the threat of professional obsoles...

Multiply sectioned Bayesian networks (MSBNs) support multiagent probabilistic inference in distributed large problem domains, where agents (subdomains) are organized by a tree structure (called hypertree). In earlier work, all belief updating methods on a hypertree are made of two rounds of propagation, each of which is implemented as a recursive process. Both processes need to be started from ...

The present study examined how the updating, inhibiting, and shifting abilities underlying executive control influence spoken noun-phrase production. Previous studies provided evidence that updating and inhibiting, but not shifting, influence picture-naming response time (RT). However, little is known about the role of executive control in more complex forms of language production like generati...