In a moving train, the acceleration and deceleration adversely effects the sensor systems, which may induce errors into the system. Todays technology does not guarantee success and safety in all situations. There are two important situations that are critical for the safety of passengers when embarking and disembarking. Distributed sensing networks needed to control the train doors require a fu...

The title is meant in two senses: both as a reference to the fact that contemporary freely improvised music is underrepresented in the study of AI and music; and, as a reference to the behavioral robotics research of Rodney Brooks, who famously stated that in place of computational representation, “the world is its own best model”. Brooks cites the theoretical work of Marvin Minsky as a source ...

Analogies and Positive Transfer in Artificial Grammar Learning Abstract Following Brooks and Vokey (1991), we showFollowing Brooks and Vokey (1991), we show that positive transfer to new items generated from an artificial grammar in which the vocabulary has been changed from training to test can be based on “abstract analogy” to specific training items (specific similarity) rather than abstract...