Authors:Jeremy Wyatt, John Demiris,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: learning, notes, lecture, proceedings, artificial, intelligence, september, computer, lausanne, european, robot, workhop, robots, advances, ewlr, switzerland
Number of Pages: 165
Published: 2000-11-10
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 3540411623
ISBN-13: 9783540411628

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Learning Robots, EWLR’99, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 1999.The seven revised full workshop papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Also included are two invited full papers. Among the topics addressed are map building for robot navigation, multi-task reinforcement learning, neural network approaches, example-based learning, situated agents, planning maps for mobile robots, path finding, autonomous robots, and biologically inspired

Authors:Benoit Morel, Igor Linkov,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: environmental, risk, role, security, workhop, science, series, research, proceedings, management, assessment, nato, advanced
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 1402038917
ISBN-13: 9781402038914

The concept of "Environmental security" has emerged as one basis for understanding international conflicts. This phrase can mean a variety of things. It can signify security issues stemming from environmental concerns or conflicting needs, or it can mean that the environment is treated as a resource for the long term, and the question is what should be done today to preserve the quality of the environment in the future. Over the last several years, the authors of this book and their colleagues have demonstrated the power and value of risk assessment and decision analysis as tools that decision