Kriesgpiel, or partially observable chess, is appealing to the AI community due to its similarity to real-world applications in which a decision maker is not a lone agent changing the environment. This paper applies the framework of Interactive POMDPs to design a competent Kriegspiel player. The novel element, compared to the existing approaches, is to model the opponent as a competent player a...

This research examined how and when people engage in upward self-revision to embrace new possible selves in response to social validation. First, the present study (n1⁄4 67) predicted and found that upward self-revision was more likely to occur when validations fully specify the meaning of the positive discrepancy between the desired self and the alternative self into the explicit prospect of t...

This paper works through the optimization of a real world planning problem, with a com­ bination of a generative planning tool and an influence diagram solver. The problem is taken from an existing application in the do­ main of oil spill emergency response. The planning agent manages constraints that or­ der sets of feasible equipment employment actions. This is mapped at an intermedi­ ate lev...

The paper presents an analytical method of finding functions of influence lines of statically indeterminate beams. There are presented solutions of a fourth order equation with a right hand side with second and third derivative of Dirac delta. There is shown that their solution are influence lines of moments and transverse forces. Moreover, thanks to Mathematica, analytical form of envelopes fu...

When selecting a filter for an application, it is often essential to know the behaviour of the filter in presence of contamination. This robustness of a filter is traditionally explored by means of influence function (IF) and change-of-variance function (CVF). However, as these are asymptotic measures there is uncertainty of the applicability of the obtained results to the finite length filters...

The objective of this research is to design an approach for selecting appropriate raw materials for facial tissues in Iran. There are three possibilities to maintain raw materials: (1) imported virgin pulp; (2) bagasse (sugar cane residue) plus some imported raw materials; and (3) recycled paper plus some imported raw materials. Owing to the shortage of raw materials as well as the high rate of...

As an important long-term incentive mode, the equity incentive promotes the managers to contribute to the interest uniformity of managers and shareholders. By using Paired-Samples T test methods and regression analysis method and choosing companies that issued the equity incentive plan in 2007 as the sample, this paper comparatively analyzes the differences in the performance of companies befor...