Individual and joint body movement assessed by wearable sensing as a predictor of attraction in speed dates

Interpersonal attraction is known to motivate behavioral responses in the person experiencing this subjective phenomenon. Such responses may involve the imitation of behavior, as in mirroring or mimicry of postures or gestures, which have been found to be associated with the desire to be liked by an interlocutor. Speed dating provides a...

Learning Stochastic Graph Neural Networks With Constrained Variance

Stochastic graph neural networks (SGNNs) are information processing architectures that learn representations from data over random graphs. SGNNs are trained with respect to the expected performance, which comes with no guarantee about deviations of particular output realizations around the optimal expectation. To overcome this issue, we propose...

PFA and ω1-free compact spaces

The Proper Forcing Axiom implies that compact Hausdorff spaces are either first-countable or contain a converging ω1-sequence.

A parameterized extended shift-splitting preconditioner for nonsymmetric saddle point problems

In this article, a parameterized extended shift-splitting (PESS) method and its induced preconditioner are given for solving nonsingular and nonsymmetric saddle point problems with nonsymmetric positive definite (1,1) part. The convergence analysis of the (Formula presented.) iteration method is discussed. The distribution of eigenvalues of...

Convergence of ant colony multi-agent swarms

Ant Colony algorithms are a set of biologically inspired algorithms used commonly to solve distributed optimization problems. Convergence has been proven in the context of optimization processes, but these proofs are not applicable in the framework of robotic control. In order to use Ant Colony algorithms to control robotic swarms, we present...

What do subjective workload scales really measure?: Operational and representational solutions to divergence of workload measures

We examine the continuing use of subjective workload responses to index an operator’s state, either by themselves or as part of a collective suite of measurements. Lack of convergence of subjective scales with physiological and performance-based measures calls into question whether there is any unitary workload construct that underpins...

Estimating Romantic, Social, and Sexual Attraction by Quantifying Bodily Coordination using Wearable Sensors

In this paper we introduce a novel method of estimating romantic, social and sexual attraction between two people by quantifying their bodily coordination using wearable sensors in a speed-date setting. We developed simple synchrony and convergence features, inspired from the literature and specifically adapted to be extracted from...

Language Equations for Maximal Decompositions in Coordination Control

The problem considered is to construct all solutions of an equation for a tuple of languages. The tuple in synchronous composition should equal a considered language. Of special interest are the maximal solutions with respect to a partial order relation on the set of solutions. The motivation of the problem is coordination control. The approach...

Improving convergence of quasi dynamic assignment models

For decades congestion levels around the world are rising. To properly incorporate the effects of congestion into strategic transport models, a shift from static capacity restrained towards capacity constrained and dynamic traffic assignment models has occurred. In this paper we focus on quasi dynamic assignment models (more specific: static...

The Convergence of Reciprocation: (Extended Abstract)

People often interact repeatedly: with relatives, through file sharing, in politics, etc. Many such interactions are reciprocal: reacting to the actions of the other. In order to facilitate decisions regarding reciprocal interactions, we analyze the development of reciprocation over time. To this end, we propose a model for such interactions...

Active Vision for Humanoid Robots

Human perception is an active process. By altering its viewpoint rather than passively observing surroundings and by operating on sequences of images rather than on a single frame, the human visual system has the ability to explore the most relevant information based on knowledge, therefore when growing up a human is able to develop cognitive...

Supply chain sustainability - a relationship management approach moderated by culture and commitment

This research explores the nature of relationship management on construction projects in Australia and examines the effects of culture, by means of Schwarz’s value survey, on relationships under different contract strategies. The research was based on the view that the development of a sustainable supply chain depends on the transfer of...

New method for solving the Navier-Stokes equations with artificial relations between variations of quantities, applied at nearest nodes

With the use of the Newton method, a new numerical method previously published [1] for solving the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, is theoretically proved for the most simple case of one-dimensional acoustic equations. The convergence of iteration scheme is proved. In this paper, we also recall some theoretical and numerical results...

Viscoplasticity for instabilities due to strain softening and strain-rate softening

A generalisation of J2-flow theory for polar continua

Wave propagation and localization in a rate-dependent cracked medium-model formulation and one-dimensional examples

Localisation in a Cosserat continuum under static and dynamic loading conditions

The nonlinear analysis part of B2000: a first evaluation

In this report a description is given of the nonlinear package of B2000. The set-up of the continuation procedure which controls the nonlinear calculations is explained. At some points the existing continuation procedure was modified to enhance its performance. The nonlinear package contains a nonlinear rod element and a nonlinear thick shell...