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...

Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz, 2, 3, 4, 5, ∗ Marcello Benedetti, 2, 4, 5 John Realpe-Gómez, 6, 7 and Rupak Biswas 8 Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab., NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Qubitera, LLC., Mountain View, CA 94041, USA Department of Computer Science, University College London, WC1E ...

We have built web interfaces to a number of Natural Language Processing technologies. These interfaces allow students to experiment with different inputs and view corresponding output and inner workings of the systems. When possible, the interfaces also enable the student to modify the knowledge bases of the systems and view the resulting change in behavior. Such interfaces are important becaus...

Engineering can learn from ethics, but ethics can also learn from engineering. In this paper, I discuss what engineering metaphors can teach us about practical philosophy. Using metaphors such as calculation, performance, and open source, I articulate two opposing views of morality and politics: one that relies on images related to engineering as science and one that draws on images of engineer...

The recent Covid-19 pandemic has brought about drastic changes in the teaching-learning process. We witnessed a paradigm shift from conventional classrooms to virtual online learning. Although learning is not new concept, covid-19 situation came with subsequent restrictions that shook entire school educational system. Education become highly uncertain for time being, especially India. This been...

background and objectives: ensiling is a conservation method for forage crops. it is based on the fact that anaerobe lactic acid bacteria (lab) convert water-soluble carbohydrates into organic acids. therefore, ph decreases and the forage is preserved. the aim of this study was to isolate special kinds of lactic acid bacteria from silage and to study the effect of bacteria, inulin and enzymes a...