Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA) can be considered as an element in the third phase of environmental risk management. Its focus is on providing inclusive descriptions of multiple impacts from multiple stressors in such a way that they can be evaluated against the potential societal benefits of the causes of the stressors. This paper emphasises some differences and diffi...

This paper describes the 5dpo-2000 team. The paper will be divided into three main sections, corresponding to three main blocks: the Global Level, the Local Level and the Interface Level. These Levels, their subsystems and some implementation details will be described next.

Teamwork contributes to a considerable improvement in quality and quantity of the ultimate outcome. Collaboration and alliance between team members bring a substantial progress for any business. However, it is imperative to acquire an appropriate team since many factors must be considered in this regard. Team size may represent the effectiveness of a team and it is of paramount importance to de...

In this paper, we describe the GMD-Robots. These robots will be presented at the RoboCup 1999. RoboCup is the robot world cup soccer games and conferences. It offers the opportunity to examine a wide range of technologies in different research areas. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple moving robots in a dynamic environment. In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game vario...

Many commercial computer games allow a team of players to match their skills against another team, controlled by humans or by the computer. Most players prefer human opponents, since the artificial intelligence of a computer-controlled team is in general inferior. An adaptive mechanism for team-oriented artificial intelligence would allow computer-controlled opponents to adapt to human player b...

This paper describes the hardware and software architecture of the Attempto RoboCup-99 team. The different parts of robot, sensor and computer hardware which are used are presented. Then the robot control architecture which realizes a hybrid control, consisting of a reactive behavior based component and a planner component for more complex tasks is introduced. Also the problems we currently are...

This document describes the current hardware and software of the robot system developed by the Humanoid Team Humboldt for the RoboCup competitions to be held in Bremen 2006. The robots are based on a construction kit, which has been significantly extended to serve as a platform for research and competition. The construction kit is enriched by sensors like cameras and acceleration sensors. The e...

I t is a pleasure and a great honor to be here, and thank you very much to the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) for this opportunity to share some thoughts with you today. In a little bit, you are going to hear two fantastic essays from two future leaders in trauma and very likely of this organization. I hope that the things that we talk about here today will put their essay...