R.M. Haberle, NASA/Ames Research Center ([email protected]), J.L Hollingsworth, NASA/Ames Research Center ([email protected]), A. Colaprete, NASA/Ames Research Center ([email protected]) A.F.C. Bridger, San Jose State University ([email protected]), C.P. McKay, NASA/Ames Research Center ([email protected]), J.R. Murphy, New Mexico State University (mur...

Research in machine learning has produced many learning algorithms mainly for classification tasks. This paper reports on an extension made to the learning program COBWEB to allow it to handle examples described by a more complex description language. The paper describes Bridger, a system that implements this, as well as other extensions. Bridger, combines leaning and performance in design task...

It has been observed that a careful selection of training examples improves the performance of supervised concept learning systems. This observation is important when examples are not available and are expensive to generate, or when using incremental learning systems. These two reasons are manifested in the context of BRIDGER, a system that learns to design cable-stayed bridges. This paper desc...

Aesthetics plays a major role in real design. To date, aesthetics is mostly ignored in studies dealing with computational design support systems. Probably, the main reason for this omission is that aesthetics is tightly associated with art which is perceived to be beyond the capabilities of computational techniques. The paper outlines a model for the incorporation of aesthetic judgment in desig...

In the present study, we conducted an event-related potentials (ERP) study to examine episodic and semantic memory. We focused on two well-known patterns: the semantic N400 and the old/new fN400. Some researchers have argued that they reflect the same neuropsychological response (Voss & Federmeier, 2011). Others have suggested that they have distinct spatial-temporal signatures and reflect diff...

Supertasks recently discussed in the literature purport to display a failure of energy conservation and determinism in Newtonian mechanics. We debate whether these supertasks are admissible as Newtonian systems, with Earman and Norton defending the affirmative and Alper and Bridger the negative.

BACKGROUND De novo assembly of non-model organism's transcriptomes has recently been on the rise in concert with the number of de novo transcriptome assembly software programs. There is a knowledge gap as to what assembler software or k-mer strategy is best for construction of an optimal de novo assembly. Additionally, there is a lack of consensus on which evaluation metrics should be used to a...