In this chapter, an overview of the wide variety occurrences mental modelsMental model in literature is discussed. They are classified according to two dimensions obtaining four categories models: static-dynamicDynamics and world-mental, where static refers for world statesWorld state or statesMental dynamicDynamics processes processesMental process. addition, distinctions made what can be done...

While activity recognition has been shown to be valuable for pervasive computing applications, less work has focused on techniques for forecasting the future occurrence of activities. We present an activity forecasting method to predict the time that will elapse until a target activity occurs. This method generates an activity forecast using a regression tree classifier and offers an advantage ...

The acquisition of Mental State Verbs (MSVs) has been extensively studied in respect to their common occurrence with sentential complement syntax. However, MSVs also occur in a variety of other syntactic structures. Moreover, other verb classes frequently occur with sentential complements, e.g., Communication and Perception verbs. The similarity in distribution of the various verb classes over ...

Complexity of software has been largely studied as a property of the code. We argue instead that complexity is a psychological phenomenon and should be studied from this perspective. The psychological literature however is structured in a way making of little practical usefulness. We propose a model based on isolated psychological facts connected by intuitive reasoning to fight complexity in a ...

We describe formal manipulations of programming language semantics that permit execution animation for interpreters. We rst study the use of occurrences in the-calculus and we describe an implementation of the notion of residuals. We then describe applications in the development of interpreters for the lazy-calculus and the parallel language Oc-cam.

ur lives are often directed by chance occurrences. For Robert Guthrie, a lifelong interest in the cause of mental retardation came from a retarded son and a dedication to preventing mental retardation in phenylketonuria (PKU) came from the diagnosis of PKU in his wife’s mentally retarded niece. From these roots came Guthrie’s introduction f newborn screening for PKU 3 and, subsequently, to the ...