The perception-action cycle is viewed within the context of research in manual control. A portrait of a perception-action system is derived from the primitives of control theory in order to evaluate the promise of this perspective for what Warren and McMfllan (1984) have termed "Active Psychophysics." That is, a study of human performance that does justice to the intimate coupling between perce...

The topological reliability of communication network is a key point of the present network reliability researches, which is the study of network reliability using graph theory. The study of network reliability can be also considered as first step of the design of “good” communication network. This paper presents a survey of analytical methods “probabilistic methods” used for network reliability...

We obtain the probability distribution of the number of successes in a sequence of correlated binary trials as a function of marginal probabilities and correlation coefficients. It is based on Bahadur’s representation of the joint probability distribution of correlated binary trials, truncated to second-order correlations. We provide new results, illustrating the use of this distribution in rel...

Maintenance is an important activity in industry. It is performed either to revive a machine/component or to prevent it from breaking down. Different strategies have evolved through time, bringing maintenance to its current state: condition-based and predictive maintenances. This evolution was due to the increasing demand of reliability in industry. The key process of condition-based and predic...

Three theories of knowledge transfer -analogy, knowledge compilation, and constraint violation -were tested across three transfer scenarios. Each theory was shown to predict human performance in distinct and identifiable ways on a variety of transfer tasks. Results support the hypothesis that there are multiple mechanisms of transfer and that a general theory of transfer must incorporate each m...