We consider elections where the chair may attempt to influence the result by replacing candidates with the intention to make a specific candidate lose (destructive control). We call this form of control “replacement control” and we study its computational complexity. We focus in particular on Plurality and Veto, for which we prove that destructive control via replacing candidates is computation...

A large number of delinquent activities are performed by adolescents and only occur during this period in their lives. One of the main factors that influence this behaviour is social interaction, mainly with peers. This paper contributes a computational model that predicts delinquent behaviour during adolescence based on interaction with friends and classmates. Based on the model, which was val...

In this paper we present computational models to compute readability of Indian language text documents. We first demonstrate the inadequacy and the consequent inapplicability of some of the popular readability metrics in English to Hindi and Bangla. Next, we present user experiments to identify important structural parameters of Bangla and Hindi that affect readability of texts in these two lan...

In this study we describe a comprehensive computational model of network dynamics (COM-NeD) and demonstrate how it may help us better understand and theorize the dynamics of strategic networks. Specifically, we model a population of firms characterized by idiosyncratic resource needs and productive capacities, while having to respond to the demands of external events by establishing ties and re...

For testing two vector random variables for independence, we propose testing whether the distance of one vector from an arbitrary center point is independent from the distance of the other vector from another arbitrary center point by a univariate test. We prove that under minimal assumptions, it is enough to have a consistent univariate independence test on the distances, to guarantee that the...

Image-guided surgery aims at relating data of an on-going intervention to preoperative information about important anatomical structures or tumor localizations. Using intra-operatively acquired 3D information of the operation area has been proven to be the right starting point for accomplishing this task, but is leading to technical challenges especially in the field of minimally invasive surge...

This paper discusses the development of a computational modeling and analysis toolkit to construct, animate, and biomechanically analyze sophisticated models of vertebrates. Users will be able to create virtual musculoskeletal models of almost any vertebrate, extinct or extant, and run biomechanical analyses on one element or more of those models during simulated activities. By imposing selecta...

In the present paper we show that a general-purpose word learn­ ing model can simulate several important findings from recent experiments in language acquisition. Both the addition of back­ ground noise and varying the speaker have been found to in­ fluence infants’ performance during word recognition experi­ ments. We were able to replicate this behaviour in our artificial word learning agent....

The case for a Complexity Continuum (CC) is presented. Past research on the effects of syntactic complexity (and other contributors to complexity, such as difficult words) in an advertising context has yielded seemingly contradictory findings. Rather than being problematic, however, it is argued in this conceptual paper that the various results from past research are complementary. By placing e...

In this work we present psycholinguistically motivated computational models for the organization and processing of Bangla morphologically complex words in the mental lexicon. Our goal is to identify whether morphologically complex words are stored as a whole or are they organized along the morphological line. For this, we have conducted a series of psycholinguistic experiments to build up hypot...