We examine the possibility of using non-intrusive bed sensor measures to ascertain the emotional wellness of an individual. To this end we did a convergent validation study to determine whether heart rate and respiration measures provided by the bed sensor correlate with self reports through questionnaires. The results show that negative affect and worry tension positively correlate with noctur...

Yearly sales of “fair trade” products exceeds $2.3 billion worldwide. Consumers who are altruistic and rational will choose these product-donation bundles when the bundle is cheaper than its elements. Assume a supplier’s investment reduces retailers’ costs (or improves quality), but this investment is non-verifiable, hence sub-optimal even with infinitely-repeated interaction. A retailer paying...

Teacher education programs are experiencing reform movements in both performance based assessment and in the integration of technology into the curriculum. Performance assessment entails movement away from traditional curricula and assessment means to achieve more authentic, "real world" ways of verifying the preparedness of education graduates. Our institution’s response to these reform effort...

This paper builds on recent research investigating sentence ordering in text production by evaluating the Centering-based metrics of coherence employed by Karamanis et al. (2004) using the data of Barzilay and Lapata (2005). This is the first time that Centering is evaluated empirically as a sentence ordering constraint in several domains, verifying the results reported in Karamanis et al.

A new method is proposed for building a predictive belief function from statistical data in the Transferable Belief Model framework. The starting point of this method is the assumption that, if the probability distribution PX of a random variable X is known, then the belief function quantifying our belief regarding a future realization of X should have its pignistic probability distribution equ...

In this position paper we present an approach for achieving high assurance of flight systems that is related to and complementary with software verification and validation methods. We propose a model-based approach to runtime monitoring and error recovery of flight software, in short, software fault protection. More specifically certain aspects of the intended system behavior are formalized in ...

Electricity demand forecasting can provide the scientific basis for the country to formulate the power industry development strategy and the power-generating target, which further promotes the sustainable, healthy and rapid development of the national economy. In this paper, a new mathematical hybrid method is proposed to forecast electricity demand. In line with electricity demand feature, the...