The VUB AI-lab team is mainly interested in the two loosely linked aspects of on-board control and heterogeneity. One major effort for forstering both aspects within RoboCup’s small robots league is our development of a so-to-say robot constructionkit, allowing to implement a wide range of players with onboard control. For the ’99 competition, the existing RoboCube controller-hardware has been ...

Service-orientierte Software-Architekturen wachsen gegenwärtig mit Architekturen für Cloud Computing zusammen. Neue Software-Architekturen sind die strukturelle Basis für zukunftsweisende IT-Unternehmensarchitekturen und zugehörige leistungsstarke Informationssysteme. Das ARL Architecture Reference Lab des SOA Innovation Lab und der Hochschule Reutlingen erforscht in einem deutschlandweit ausge...

Dalbergia sissoo Roxb (Indian rosewood) is an important tree species belonging to the family papilionaceae. It is a medium to large‐sized, gregarious deciduous tree, attaining a height up to 30 m and a girth up to 2•5 m in a favorable climate (sub‐tropical and tropical zones). According to Champion & Seth [1], the Shisham tree is a characteristic species of Khair-sissoo (Acacia catechu‐Dalbergi...

New paradigms, such as Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003) and Web 2.0 (O’Reilly, 2004) as well as Living Labs operating as a User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem (Pallot, 2009), promote a more proactive role of users in the R&D process. However, a number of existing methods for involving users are abundantly described in the literature, such as Lead User (Von Hippel, 2005), User Driven Innova...

Die ISO27001:2005 als Informationssicherheitsmanagementsystem (ISMS) etabliert sich zunehmend als der Sicherheitsstandard in Unternehmen. Die Grundidee des ISMS basiert auf einem Management der Informationssicherheit welches ausgerichtet ist auf dem Management der Unternehmensrisiken und einen direkten Bezug zum Firmenumsatz herstellt. Bis September 2009 wurden weltweit mehr als 5822 1 zertifiz...

The previously monotypic genus Pseudorhopalia Wilcox & Papavero, 1971 is here revised, with description of a new species, Pseudorhopalia manauara, sp. n. The type-species, P. mirandai (d'Andretta & Carrera, 1951), is only found in northeastern Brazil, in the semiarid Caatinga biome. On the other hand, the new species is found in the humid Brazilian Amazonia, within dense ombrophilous forest and...

New Zealand contains 13 of the 69 species of Crotonia described globally and is the only place where all three genera of the Crotoniinae-Crotonia, Austronothrus and Holonothrus-have been recorded. Due to the pioneering work of Hammer (1966) and Luxton (1982) it also has the highest number of distribution records of Crotonia spp. anywhere. In the present study I build upon previous work to re-ex...