Motivated by parallel optimization, we experiment EDA-like adaptation-rules in the case of λ large. The rule we use, essentially based on estimation of multivariate normal algorithm, is (i) compliant with all families of distributions for which a density estimation algorithm exists (ii) simple (iii) parameter-free (iv) better than current rules in this framework of λ large. The speed-up as a fu...

INTRODUCTION Philosophers, cognitive and social psychologists and laypeople often subscribe to the view that willpower is central to recovery from addiction. But there are reasons to suspect that willpower is much less important to explaining recovery than this view suggests. METHODS Here we report findings from a qualitative longitudinal study on how substance dependent people see their agen...

The escalation in test cost has been given a great deal of attention recently and several approaches have been pursued to alter test strategy to lower cost of test. The large independent device manufacturers are replacing the requirement for every increasing frequency, accuracy and pin count in their ATE equipment with design-for-test (DFT) solutions. This approach may be successful for high vo...

Route selection is governed by various strategies which often allow minimizing the required memory capacity. Previous research showed that navigators primarily remember information at route decision points and at route turns, rather than at intersections which required straight walking. However, when actually navigating the route or indicating directional decisions, navigators make fewer errors...

This paper deals with a new approach to modify software process models and their software processes. Such an approach, in contrast with existing ones, supports the different evolution strategies for the software process models, and allows the adaptation of software process during execution. The integration of these two types of evolution is based on a chaining of phases (generation/evolution/si...

A rewrite sequence is said to be outermost-fair if every out-ermost redex occurrence is eventually eliminated. O'Donnell has shown that outermost-fair rewriting is normalising for almost orthogonal rst-order term rewriting systems. In this paper we extend this result to the higher-order case.

This paper investigates empirically the relationship between the pattern of fiscal policy and the demand for international reserves in developing countries, and how this relationship is associated with political risk and conditional access to global capital markets. It finds evidence that for developing countries with low political risk, countercyclical (procyclical) fiscal policies are associa...

This section is a collection of shorter “Issue and Opinions” pieces that address some of the critical challenges around the evolution of digital business strategy. These voices and visions are from thought leaders who, in addition to their scholarship, have a keen sense of practice. They outline through their opinion pieces a series of issues that will need attention from both research and prac...

Despite consensus on actions to improve nutrition globally, less is known about how to operationalize the right mix of actions-nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive-equitably, at scale, in different contexts. This review draws on a large scaling-up literature search and 4 case studies of large-scale nutrition programs with proven impact to synthesize critical elements for impact at scale. ...

This paper presents an approach based on the evolution strategy for autonomous learning of dextrous manipulation primitives with a dextrous robot hand. We use heuristics derived from observations made on human hands to reduce the degrees of freedom of the task and make learning possible. Our system does not rely on simulation; all the experimentation is performed the 16-degree-of-freedom Utah/M...