Great times for great yoga are here to stay!

Hard Times or Great Expectations

This paper uncovers an increasing proportion of quoted UK companies omitting cash dividends. Using a large panel of quoted UK companies, we estimate models for the incidence of dividend omissions and cuts as functions of financial characteristics including cash flow, leverage, investment opportunities, investment and company size. These variables account for most of the increase in omission sin...

From the CUPIC study: great times are not coming(?).

Integrated Intelligence: RobotS Are Here to Stay

Nothing went "wrong," but new research questions came inevitably up. RobotS, in the plural and as physical artifacts to be present in our daily environments, offer a real challenge for AI: the effective integration of perception, cognition, and action in individual and multiple robots. In the talk, I will discuss concrete aspects of this "integrated intelligence," including world modeling and l...

ISWC 2013-Wearables Are Here to Stay

Hot toPICS In numbers, ISWC was a tremendous success. We received 101 submissions— the largest number in the last eight years—making for a selective 23 percent acceptance rate for oral presentations. Furthermore, ISWC was colocated with the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, which merged the UbiComp and Pervasive conferences. (See this issue’s Conferences ...

Roles Are Really Great!