“A Focused Interest Group (FIG) is a group of not less than ten MSA members who have organized, with the approval Council, to promote specific discipline relevant microscopy or microanalysis.” – mission statement from FIG guidelines.

The findings are presented of a consensus group created to address the standardization of performance measures for emergency medicine. This group, whose members have affiliations with most major organizations interested in emergency medicine performance, benchmarking and quality improvement, was tasked with standardizing definitions pertinent to emergency department performance measures, creati...

Academic Libraries and Innovation Innovation is an important component of the academic library. In an environment where new technologies and resources are clouding the information world, it is essential for libraries to continue to be at the forefront of innovations impacting the information world. Robin Bergart and M.J. D’Elia project that “if you take a look at your library’s mission or visio...

Interoperability of Enterprise Applications is a serious and multi-facetted problem. One of the tasks of the recently-started INTEROP Network of Excellence is to address this problem at the modelling level through the elaboration of a Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML). In this paper, some methodological hints and an embryonic mission statement are submitted to discussion with peers.

We present a control strategy for an autonomous vehicle that is required to satisfy a rich mission specification over service requests occurring at the regions of a partitioned environment. The overall mission specification consists of a temporal logic statement over a set of static, a priori known requests, and a servicing priority order over a set of dynamic requests that can be sensed locall...

We present a receding horizon method for controlling an autonomous vehicle that must satisfy a rich mission specification over service requests occurring at the regions of a partitioned environment. The overall mission specification consists of a temporal logic statement over a set of static, a priori known requests, a regular expression over a set of dynamic requests that can be sensed only lo...

erative robotic systems, as the first fully-integrated autonomous multi-robot system operated in natural terrain. The mission grammar supports a wide variety of missions, providing optimal execution of those missions by teams of robots, with graceful degradation of optimality for compu-tationally intractable missions. Furthermore, GRAMMPS supports heterogeneous robots as specified via the missi...