From the contents: Algorithmic Challenges in Structural Molecular Biology and Proteomics -- Networked Robots: Ten Years of Experiments -- Algorithmic Foundation of the Clockwork Orange Robot Soccer Team -- Uniform Coverage of Simple Surfaces Embedded in R3 for Auto-Body Painting -- Stealth Tracking of an Unpredictable Target among Obstacles -- Multi-Step Motion Planning for Free-Climbing Robots…
Keynotes -- A Virtual Research Lab for a Knowledge Community in Production (VRL-KciP) -- Integrated Design for Manufacture, Service and Environment -- Design Strategies and Methodologies -- The Challenge of Environmental Improvement in Different Types of Innovation Projects -- Evolution of Collective Practices in Design by Integration of New Methods -- Effective Strategies in the Redesign Proce…
Multi-modal Robot Interfaces -- Perception, Interpretation and Interaction -- Learning, Programming and Instructing -- Co-existence: Physical Interaction and Coordinated Motion -- Safety and Dependability -- Architecture -- Systems and Applications."Advances in Human-Robot Interaction" provides a unique collection of recent research in human-robot interaction. It covers the basic important rese…
Megatrends and air transport – An overview -- Global balance of power and aviation -- E-trends and air transport -- Effect of megatrends on airports -- Artificial intelligence and air transport -- Millennials and disruptive innovation -- The internet of everything -- Conclusion.This book discusses megatrends and subsequently applies them to the air transport industry from a legal, ethical and…
Many intelligence practitioners feel that the statutory footing on which intelligence agencies have been placed forms an impediment to confronting unprecedented contemporary challenges. On the basis of case studies spanning the period from the First World War to the present, this book argues that while the intelligence community in the era of globalization has indeed come to face new and comple…
A Retrospective View of Synonymy and Semantic Classification -- On the Early History of Evaluation in IR -- The Emergence of Probabilistic Accounts of Information Retrieval -- Lovins Revisited -- The History of IDF and Its Influences on IR and Other Fields -- Beyond English Text: Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval -- Karen Spärck Jones and Summarization -- Question Answering -- …
Theory of Language Measure and Supervisory Control -- Signed Real Measure of Regular Languages -- Optimal Supervisory Control of Regular Languages -- Robust Optimal Control of Regular Languages -- Advanced Topics in Supervisory Control -- Engineering and Software Applications of Language Measure and Supervisory Control -- Discrete Event Supervisory Control of a Mobile Robotic System -- Optimal …
CIARP 2005 (10th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, X CIARP) is the 10th event in the series of pioneer congresses on pattern recognition in the Iberoamerican community, which takes place in La Habana, Cuba. As in previous years, X CIARP brought together international scientists to promote and disseminate ongoing research and mathematical methods for pattern recognition, image analy…
1 – General Artificial Intelligence (GAIW 2005) -- Reducing Propositional Theories in Equilibrium Logic to Logic Programs -- Preference Revision Via Declarative Debugging -- Revised Stable Models – A Semantics for Logic Programs -- Operational Semantics for DyLPs -- Case Retrieval Nets for Heuristic Lexicalization in Natural Language Generation -- Partially Parametric SVM -- Adapting Hausdo…
Invited Papers -- Coordinating Teams in Uncertain Environments: A Hybrid BDI-POMDP Approach -- Agents – The Challenge of Relevance to the IT Mainstream -- Agent-Oriented Programming -- Goal Representation for BDI Agent Systems -- AF-APL – Bridging Principles and Practice in Agent Oriented Languages -- Agent Platforms and Tools -- A Toolkit for the Realization of Constraint-Based Multiagent …