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In recent years, autonomous robots, including Xavier, Martha [1], Rhino [2,3], Minerva,and Remote Agent, have shown impressive performance in long-term demonstrations.

This book offers a multifaceted exploration of cybersecurity through the lenses of policy, ethics, and advanced technology.

This book offers a multifaceted exploration of cybersecurity through the lenses of policy, ethics, and advanced technology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Evolutionary Robotics, ER 2001, held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2001.

This book provides a new direction in the field of nano-optics and nanophotonics from information and computing-related sciences and technology.

Effective evacuation of people from closed spaces is an extremely important topic, since it can save real lives in emergency situations that can be brought about by natural and human made disasters.

Information extraction (IE) is a new technology enabling relevant content to be extracted from textual information available electronically.

In defining the state of the art of E-Government, EGOV 2002 was aimed at breaking new ground in the development of innovative solutions in this impor- tant field of the emerging Information Society.

Multimodal Interfaces represents an emerging interdisciplinary research direction and has become one of the frontiers in Computer Science.

Originating from a Dagstuhl seminar, the collection of papers presented in this book constitutes on the one hand a representative state-of-the-art survey of embodied artificial intelligence, and on the other hand the papers identify the important research trends and directions in the field.

In this book for the first time two scientific fields - consensus formation and synchronization of communications - are presented together and examined through their interrelational aspects, of rapidly growing importance.

Synchronization of chaotic systems, a patently nonlinear phenomenon, has emerged as a highly active interdisciplinary research topic at the interface of physics, biology, applied mathematics and engineering sciences.

It is our great pleasure and honor to organize the First IEEE Computer Society International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV 2000).

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Inclusive Design as a framework for developing products, services, environments, and learning experiences that enable the diversity and differing abilities of human populations.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Inclusive Design as a framework for developing products, services, environments, and learning experiences that enable the diversity and differing abilities of human populations.

Reinforcement learning has developed as a successful learning approach for domains that are not fully understood and that are too complex to be described in closed form.

This book contains the papers presented at the 13th International Workshop on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) held on September 1-3, 2003.

Robotic agents, such as autonomous office couriers or robot tourguides, must be both reliable and efficient.

This book contains the written contributions to the program of the First In- ternational Conference on Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, and Robotics in Medicine (CVRMed'95) held in Nice during the period April 3-6, 1995.

This volume is the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Multimedia Content Processing (AMCP '98).

The International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization, and Simulation PATMOS 2002, was the 12th in a series of international workshops 1 previously held in several places in Europe.

Industrial robots carry out simple tasks in customized environments for which it is typical that nearly all e?

The phenomenal increases in computer system performance in recent years have been accompanied by a commensurate increase in power and energy dissipation.

In this book the author employs a cybernetic view of robot cognition and perception as he examines mobile robot simulations, realizations and experiments, and explains the related mathematical models and algorithms.

Chaos and nonlinear dynamics initially developed as a new emergent field with its foundation in physics and applied mathematics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI'98, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in October 1998.

For many years, Arti?

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2001, held in Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic in September 2001.

The "e;language-communication-society"e; triangle defies traditional scientific approaches.

In "e;Human Missions to Mars"e; Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective.

This book focuses on the development of multisensor fusion algorithms for wearable devices that are useful in ambulatory health monitoring using signal-processing and deep learning-based methods.

This book focuses on the development of multisensor fusion algorithms for wearable devices that are useful in ambulatory health monitoring using signal-processing and deep learning-based methods.

This book highlights intelligent analysis methods for optical images, with a particular emphasis on analytical techniques and programming.

The aim of this volume is to bring together research directions in theoretical signal and imaging processing developed rather independently in electrical engineering, theoretical physics, mathematics and the computer sciences.

Nanophotonics, a novel optical technology, utilizes the local interaction between nanometric particles via optical near fields.

No matter what your perspective is, what your goals are, or how experienced you are, Artificial Life research is always a learning experience.

This book focuses on the recent progress in nanophotonics technology to be used to develop novel nano-optical devices, fabrication technology, and security systems.

Whetheryouareacomputerscientist,alogician,aphilosopher,orapsychologist, it is crucial to understand the role that context and contextual information plays in reasoning and representation.