Anthropomorphism is a way of making sense of complex behavior in the world around us. It is not one process, but involves several – quite independent – levels, e.g., primitive psychology, folk-psychology, social stereotypes and emotional anthropomorphism. This paper explores psychological and anthropological research into the different layers in order to better understand anthropomorphic proces...

In the deformation of layered materials such as geological strata, or stacks of paper, mechanical properties compete with the geometry of layering. Smooth, rounded corners lead to voids between the layers, while close packing of the layers results in geometrically induced curvature singularities. When voids are penalized by external pressure, the system is forced to trade off these competing ef...

Service-based applications have become more and more multilayered in nature, as we tend to build software as a service on top of infrastructure as a service. Most existing SOA monitoring and adaptation techniques address layer-specific issues. These techniques, if used in isolation, cannot deal with real-world domains, where changes in one layer often affect other layers, and information from m...

There has been an increasing interest in the applicability of neural networks in disparate domains. In this paper, we describe the use of multi-layered perceptrons, a type of neural network topology, for financial classification problems, with promising results. Backpropagation, which is the learning algorithm most often used in multilayered perceptrons, however, is inherently an inefficient se...