Taking a confident leap into uncertainty

Taking a Great Leap Forward on a Blue Horse

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The year of the blue horse has begun. In the Chinese zodiac, 2014 is the year of the blue ho...

LEAP into Ad-Hoc Networks

This paper provides an overview of the work currently underway at Media Lab Europe to enable an existing, open-source, FIPAcompliant agent platform with the ability to operate in an ad-hoc environment. The motivations for using agents in ad-hoc networks and the requirements this places on an agent platform are discussed. A mechanism for discovering instances of an agent platform using current s...

Taking Uncertainty Into Account. Bias Issues Arisingfiom Parameter Uncertainty in Risk Models

Value innovation: a leap into the blue ocean

C orporate strategy is heavily influenced by its military roots. The very language of strategy is imbued with military references – chief executive ‘‘officers’’ in ‘‘headquarters’’, ‘‘troops’’ on the ‘‘front lines.’’ Described this way, strategy is about confronting an opponent and fighting over a given piece of land that is both limited and constant. Traditionally, strategy focused on beating ...

Taking the Indonesian nutrition history to leap into betterment of the future generation: development of the Indonesian Nutrition Guidelines.

Nutrition history in Indonesia began in 1887, when Christiann Eijkman discovered the relationship between vitamin B-1 deficiency and beri-beri. In the 1950's, the socialization of nutrition messages started with the introduction of "Healthy Four Perfect Five" (Empat Sehat Lima Sempurna-ESLS). For the next 25 years after that, ESLS became a favorite in nutrition education and was nationally know...