Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document specifies an appli...

We adapt a recent algorithm by Ghaffari [7] for computing a Maximal Independent Set in the Local model, so that it works in the significantly weaker Beep model. For networks with maximum degree ∆, our algorithm terminates locally within time O((log∆+log(1/ε)) · log(1/ε)), with probability at least 1− ε. The key idea of the modification is to replace explicit messages about transmission probabil...

The Role of Visuomotor Regulation Processes on Perceived Audiovisual Events Gerome Aleandro Manson Master of Science Graduate Department of Exercise Sciences University of Toronto 2013 Recent evidence suggests audiovisual perception changes as one engages in action. Specifically, if an audiovisual illusion comprised of 2 flashes and 1 beep is presented during the high velocity portion of upperl...

Broadcasting and gossiping are fundamental communication tasks in networks. In broadcasting, one node of a network has a message that must be learned by all other nodes. In gossiping, every node has a (possibly different) message, and all messages must be learned by all nodes. We study these well-researched tasks in a very weak communication model, called the beeping model. Communication procee...

Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel’s groundbreaking book, Describing Inner Experience: Proponent Meets Skeptic, examines a research method called Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES). DES, which was developed by Hurlburt and collaborators, works roughly as follows. An investigator gives a subject a random beeper. During the day, as the subject hears a beep, she writes a description of her conscious exp...

Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel’s groundbreaking book, Describing Inner Experience: Proponent Meets Skeptic, examines a research method called Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES). DES, which was developed by Hurlburt and collaborators, works roughly as follows. An investigator gives a subject a random beeper. During the day, as the subject hears a beep, she writes a description of her conscious exp...

We explore pattern recognition techniques for verifying the correctness of a pronunciation lexicon, focusing on techniques that require limited human interaction. We evaluate the British English Example Pronunciation (BEEP) dictionary [1], a popular public domain resource that is widely used in English speech processing systems. The techniques being investigated are applied to the lexicon and t...

In this paper, we address social effects of different mechanisms by means of which a robot can signal a person that it wants to pass. In the situation investigated, the robot attempts to pass by a busy, näıve participant who is blocking the way for the robot. The robot is a relatively large service robot, the Care-o-bot. Since speech melody has been found to fulfill social functions in human in...

We begin by accepting that introspective evidence is important to cognitive science. However, as its history shows, introspection is risky, so methods should be used that minimize those risks. We argue that there are 13 ways that a beeper can reduce those risks, dividing those ways into three categories: time sampling per se, minimizing the reactive disturbance of evanescent phenomena, and aidi...