Discussion about poetry with an Inspector

An inspector calls.

The debate about death: an imperishable discussion?

In this concise review we discuss some of the complex edges of the concept of death that arose after the notorious advances in science and medicine over the last 50 years, in which the classical cardio-pulmonary criteria have led to the neurological criteria of death. New complicated questions like the definition of death and the operational criteria for diagnosing it have arisen and we think t...

Poetry generation system with an emotional personality

We introduce a multiagent blackboard system for poetry generation with a special focus on emotional modelling. The emotional content is extracted from text, particularly blog posts, and is used as inspiration for generating poems. Our main objective is to create a system with an empathic emotional personality that would change its mood according to the affective content of the text, and express...

Micro-Inspector Spacecraft: An Overview

JPL has developed a small (<5 kg) spacecraft capable of visual inspection of a host vehicle with support from NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD). The Micro-Inspector is designed to have a minimal impact on the host with respect to mass, size, cost, interface, and integration. On orbit, the host provides the separation signal to the Micro-Inspector, ejecting it to autonomously...

Inspector Leadership with Incomplete Information

Inspection problems arise when an inspector has to decide whether an inspectee has behaved legally, i.e., according to a formal agreement. For such a decision the inspector uses a well-defined procedure which is based on observations of random variables and which may or may not be announced to the inspectee. Whereas in the latter case (no announcement) in equilibrium the inspectee will behave i...