Learning from rewards generated by a human trainer observing an agent in action has been proven to be a powerful method for teaching autonomous agents to perform challenging tasks, especially for those non-technical users. Since the efficacy of this approach depends critically on the reward the trainer provides, we consider how the interaction between the trainer and the agent should be designe...

Introduction The Pismo clam, Tivela stultorum, was once the foundation of a thriving commercial and recreational fishery in California (Bureau of Marine Fisheries, 1949). While there has been concern and interest in monitoring and management of the Pismo clam population, little is known about the biology and distribution of the clams themselves. For example, the characterization of the abundanc...

The Pike River mine (PRM), an underground coal mine in New Zealand (NZ), exploded in 2010. This paper analyses the causes of the disaster, with a particular focus on the systems engineering and organisational contributions. Poor systems-engineering contributed via poorly designed ventilation, use of power-electronics underground, and placement of the main ventilation fan underground. Management...

The Mine Environment Protection and Disaster Prevention Decision Support System (MEPDPDSS) will be discussed in this paper. In the proposed system, RS, GIS, GPS and their integrated technology can play important roles. This system consists of data capturing sub-system, data storage and management sub-system, data analyzing and processing sub-system, simulation and decision support sub-system, o...

Sensor network technology is one of the most promising technologies in the high technology field. Building integrated multi-sensor disaster monitoring system based on sensor network technology is the main direction of the intelligent disaster monitoring technique. The exploitation activities of the mineral resources may lead to geological disasters, so monitoring system needs to speed up the th...

The disaster in the Bois du Cazier mine Marcinelle, Belgium was one of biggest mining accidents post-Second World War Western European history. death toll large: 262 miners died, ...