This paper reviews the basic ideas underlying one-dimensional uid dynamic models of coronal loops and presents some of their most recent applications. These models are an important theoretical support to explore the new scenario provided by the data of Yohkoh, SOHO and TRACE, and are useful to interpret observations, when supplemented by appropriate spectral synthesis codes. Possible developmen...

Service robots are meant to automate tasks formerly performed by humans. They are foreseen to be useful, e.g. to elderly or to people with disabling conditions, or to anyone longing for automation taking over home/office tasks. As service robots are mobile, interfaces must take this mobility into account. Interaction situations include the co-located, the teleoperated, the autonomous, and the t...

I n 2003, the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) began a significant restructuring of its forecasting operations in response to financial pressures. Senior management proposed that the MSC could be made more cost effective while continuing to provide quality services by pursuing a more centralized forecasting approach and increasing the automation of forecasts via numerical weather predicti...

Security is a huge topic, however an international standard for automation control systems is missing. The standardisation work is progressing, e.g. within the IEC. It is clear that behind security there are several well-known security objectives such as availability, integrity and confidentiality. It is also clear that the office domain provides thousands of different security solutions. A pos...