Robots, softbots, immobots: The 1997 AAAI Workshop on Theories of Action, Planning and Control

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT P. GOLDMAN ◽  
CHITTA BARAL
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Planning Systems ◽  
Planning Techniques ◽  
The Past ◽  
Execution Monitoring ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
The World ◽  
Theories Of Action ◽  
And Control

This workshop brought together researchers concerned with fundamental issues of modelling action, those developing automated planning techniques and those attempting to implement autonomous agents acting in the world. In the past, these research communities have been separate from each other to a surprising extent. Researchers interested in theories of action have busied themselves with finding solutions to the frame and ramification problems, for very expressive theories of action. On the other hand, researchers interested in developing planning systems have typically concentrated on efficiency over expressiveness and assumed away the frame and ramification problems by means of the “STRIPS assumption”. Finally, researchers interested in implementing autonomous agents have found their attention occupied by issues of execution monitoring and sensing.

Flexible weighting of body-related effects in action production

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (9) ◽  
pp. 1360-1367
Author(s):  
Guillaume Thébault ◽  
Roland Pfister ◽  
Arthur-Henri Michalland ◽  
Denis Brouillet
Keyword(s):  
Action Planning ◽  
Tactile Feedback ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
Action Representation ◽  
Loud Tone ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Action Effects ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
And Control ◽  
Weak Influence

A previous study on ideomotor action control showed that predictable action effects in the agent’s environment influenced how an action is carried out. If participants were required to perform a forceful keypress, they exerted more force when these actions would produce a quiet compared to a loud tone, and this observation suggests that anticipated proprioceptive and auditory action effects are integrated with each other during action planning and control. In light of the typically weak influence of body-related effect found in recent work, we aimed to extend this pattern of results to the intra-modal case of integrating proprioceptive/tactile feedback of a movement and following vibro-tactile effects. Our results suggest that the same weighted integration process as for the cross-modal case applies to the intra-modal case. These observations support the idea of a common mechanism which binds all action-related features in an integrated action representation, irrespective of whether these features relate to exafferent or reafferent signals.

Containerisierung und Globalisierung – Restrukturierung der maritimen Logistikkette

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Nuhn
Keyword(s):  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Maritime Logistics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
Transport Chain ◽  
Time Planning ◽  
Interim Storage ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Homogeneous Unit

Containerisation of maritime transport and globalization. Restructuring of the logistics chain. Standardized containers which are designed to meet the particular needs of different goods turn heterogeneous cargo into homogeneous unit loads which can easily be moved and stacked. Thus for transport handling containers provide opportunities for automation and economies of scale. In the past the transport chain from sender to recipient has been characterized by a sequence of single-transit shipments with interim storage. Nowadays goods shipped in containers can be reloaded to different means of transportation and are transported to their destination under a single through-rate in less time. Planning and control of intermodal transport can be done door-to-door in an integrated full-service approach. The transformation from manual to industrialized transport handling provides opportunities for staff savings, however, it requires considerable investments in different vehicles, containers, equipment and software for operations. Customers benefit from efficiency gains in form of lower shipment prices. This article analyzes the impact of containerisation on liner shipping, harbours and transport in the hinterland as the key elements of the maritime logistics chain. The discussion outlines the topic in the context of globalisation and changing contours of the global economic map.

scholarly journals Smart Applications using Robotic and Iot Technologies in Fighting against Pandemic Covid19 in Medical and Societal Sectors

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1265-1273
Keyword(s):  
Important Research ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Sectors ◽  
Entire World ◽  
And Control

: During the past few months, the entire world is being suffering with a dangerous deadly virus named Covid19 or Coronavirus. This pandemic corona virus has washed out thousands and lakhs of people all over the world within months’ time and made all the countries GDP and economic growth collapsed. Accordingly, in India and other countries an important research and innovation investments have been made by various science and technological laboratories that are collaborated with various private and government stakeholders to find new ways to eliminate or kill the pandemic corona virus in human bodies and society. All over the world, the doctors and scientists are working very hard to reduce the rate of death and control the rate of corona spread. Alternatively, the engineers, entrepreneurs, industrialists, technocrats are sorting out and finding new ways to bridge the gap between science and technology by inventing new methods and measurements in medical, societal and service sectors The purpose of the proposed study is to showcase the opportunities of using engineering technology in biomedical and societal applications taking all over the world caused by the corona attack. The introduction of Robots and IOTs made the industries and firms fully smart automated and digitalized. In other perspective, robots were also serving medical sectors since many years successfully in heart surgeries, fighting cancer cells etc. and making the footprints for further research and developments. An attempt is made to highlight the methods and applications of Robots & IOT’s in large extent in medical and societal areas to safeguard from coronavirus

PLANNING AND CONTROL IN THE 19th CENTURY ICE TRADE

1984 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda H. Kistler ◽  
Clairmont P. Carter ◽  
Brackston Hinchey
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Transportation Costs ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

This paper describes selected accounting records of the Tudor Ice Company which were devised to manage and control the far-flung business activities of Frederic Tudor, a 19th century entrepreneur who has been called America's first monopolist. Tudor's business genius lay in developing methods of harvesting, transporting, storing, and marketing commercial quantities of ice taken from New England ponds and shipped to tropical ports around the world. Frederic Tudor employed relatively sophisticated accounting techniques to analyze and control transportation costs and the costs of product shrinkage. He also routinely analyzed and translated foreign currency transactions for his geographically dispersed operations and evaluated the impact of competition on his operations.

scholarly journals Proceedings of the third International Workshop of the IFIP WG5.7

2002 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Workshop ◽  
Formal Modeling ◽  
Autonomous Agent ◽  
Production Planning And Control ◽  
Industrial Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
Modeling Techniques ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
And Control

Contents of the papers presented at the international workshop deal with the wide variety of new and computer-based techniques for production planning and control that has become available to the scientific and industrial world in the past few years: formal modeling techniques, artificial neural networks, autonomous agent theory, genetic algorithms, chaos theory, fuzzy logic, simulated annealing, tabu search, simulation and so on. The approach, while being scientifically rigorous, is focused on the applicability to industrial environment.

scholarly journals The Concept of Eligibility and Competence in the Light of Islamic Teachings

Fahm-i-Islam ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-86
Author(s):  
Sajjad Hussain ◽  
Dr Muhammad Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Economic Deprivation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control ◽  
Political Failure

Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) has practically guided the Muslims in all spheres of life including faith, jurisprudence, economics, politics and social circles. Muslims’ ruled the world as long as they followed the Prophet and the Islamic teachings. As soon as they started ignoring the rules of Shari’ah, they fell into a political failure and economic deprivation. Leadership is such an important aspect in which lies the secret of national, political and social development. Leadership is given such importance in Islam that Prophet (SAW) has given special instructions about the eligibility to be the leader of Muslim society. According to Islamic Jurisprudence and the teachings of the Holy Prophet (SAW), leadership can only be given to the eligible and efficient figures. If authority and control is given to some ineligible or incapable people, it is not only unsuitable but a cruelty. Muslim Ummah in general and the public of Pakistan in particular had never so intensely desired for a noble leadership possessing high qualities as they need it today. Pakistani nation has reached the verge of chaos and destruction which is leading to fatal and horrible consequences. The ideology of standard and capability has clearly been interpreted in Qur’an and Sunnah. This is further supported by the practices of the Muslims in the past. This research has focused on gathering the data about ideology of standard and eligibility for the selection/election of individuals according to the Seerah of the Prophet (SAW).

scholarly journals MANAJEMEN DAKWAH NAHDLATUL ULAMA PADA MASA KEPEMIMPINAN ABDURRAHMAN WAHID

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Moh. Muafi Bin Thohir
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
Agriculture Economics ◽  
The World ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
Organization Leadership ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
And Control

Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) has continued to progress for the past 89 years. During Abdurrahman Wahid's leadership, NU slowly begin to be known as an organization that is consistent in buildingthe nation. The struggling is carried out through two channels, da’wah and politics. This article is focused on the first channel describing, da’wah, which is the basic principle of the establishment of NU.During Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) leadership, NU developes in field of organization and thought. Gus Dur also succeeded in “creates” NU young intellectuals because they were given the opportunity to develop themselves, especially in the field of thought. Whereas in the internal organization, Gus Dur put his members who have the capacity and quality in various sciences to answer the changing times and the needs of the community. Gus Dur has succeeded in making NU a religious organization in Indonesia known to the world. Abdurrahman invited academics from all over the world to Indonesia, in order learning about NU, and this is one of Abdurrahman's efforts to improve NU managerially. This article uses The theory of Stephan P. Robbins and Marry Coulter about management, which includes; planning (planning), organizing (organiszing), leadership (leading) and control (controling). At the end of this arcticle, there are some conclusions; (1) Planning: returning to the 1926 Khittah. NU became a socio-religious organization, focused on education, Islamic da'wah, human resource empowerment, and socio-economic citizens of nahdliyin. The form of establishing LP.Ma'arif, LDNU, Lakpesdam, and the People's Credit Bank (BPR) in collaboration with Bank Suma. (2) Organizing; Gus Dur and the NU board visited the regions to explain the commitment to return to the Khittah and the work program that had been planned and formulated. (3). Leadership: Gus Dur's charismatic leadership style, his own choosing of PBNU officials, Gus Dur explained his ideas, and his thoughts to the administrators to understand, and collaborated with the umara. (4) Control; visiting NU officials at branches and branches regularly, choosing administrators who are experts in the fields of religion, da'wah, education, agriculture, economics, human resources, or professional circles. Key Words: Da'wah Management, Organization, Leadership, Planning in Structure

scholarly journals OPTIMALISASI WAKTU PEKERJAAN PEMBANGUNAN PERUMAHAN GREEN HILL GRESIK MENGGUNAKAN METODE PERT DAN CPM

MANAJERIAL ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Siti Masnunah
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
Overtime Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
Implementation Costs ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to know the planning to control the project activities during the implementation phase. The success rate or failure of a project leads to less mature planning and less effective controls, resulting in project delays, increased implementation costs and lower quality. To set the time for completion of the project to be more effective and efficient can use PERT and CPM methods so as to reduce the impact of delays and swelling of implementation costs. The PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) method is a method that aims to reduce as much as possible delays, Production, and coordinate various parts of a job thoroughly and accelerate the completion of the project. While the CPM method is a method of planning and control projects that have cost data in the past. Based on the analysis results show the initial duration of the project with duration of 180 days (6 months) with the total cost of Rp. 73.599253,59. As a result of overtime work system, the duration of its activities to be 164 days with project cost of Rp. 55,089,267.07.

scholarly journals The evolution of the capacity for language: the ecological context and adaptive value of a process of cognitive hijacking

2018 ◽  
Vol 373 (1743) ◽  
pp. 20170052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oren Kolodny ◽  
Shimon Edelman
Keyword(s):  
Gene Networks ◽  
Language Evolution ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Ecological Context ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
Adaptive Value ◽  
Short Period ◽  
And Control

Language plays a pivotal role in the evolution of human culture, yet the evolution of the capacity for language—uniquely within the hominin lineage—remains little understood. Bringing together insights from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, archaeology and behavioural ecology, we hypothesize that this singular occurrence was triggered by exaptation, or ‘hijacking’, of existing cognitive mechanisms related to sequential processing and motor execution. Observed coupling of the communication system with circuits related to complex action planning and control supports this proposition, but the prehistoric ecological contexts in which this coupling may have occurred and its adaptive value remain elusive. Evolutionary reasoning rules out most existing hypotheses regarding the ecological context of language evolution, which focus on ultimate explanations and ignore proximate mechanisms. Coupling of communication and motor systems, although possible in a short period on evolutionary timescales, required a multi-stepped adaptive process, involving multiple genes and gene networks. We suggest that the behavioural context that exerted the selective pressure to drive these sequential adaptations had to be one in which each of the systems undergoing coupling was independently necessary or highly beneficial, as well as frequent and recurring over evolutionary time. One such context could have been the teaching of tool production or tool use. In the present study, we propose the Cognitive Coupling hypothesis, which brings together these insights and outlines a unifying theory for the evolution of the capacity for language. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Bridging cultural gaps: interdisciplinary studies in human cultural evolution’.

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