The human factors literature on intelligent systems was reviewed in relation to the following: efficient human supervision of multiple robots, appropriate human trust in the automated systems, maintenance of human operator’s situation awareness, individual differences in human-agent (H-A) interaction, and retention of human decision authority. A number of approaches-from flexible automation to ...

In this paper, we examine mechanisms for automat ic dialogue initiative setting. We show how to incorporate initiative changing in a task-oriented human-compute r dialogue system, and we evaluate the effects of initiative both analytically and via compute r -compute r dialogue simulation. 1 Motivation: Initiative in Task-Oriented Dialogues Efficient human-compute r dialogue requires immediate u...

The development of techniques for the design of control systems using feedback is of considerable practical importance. In particular, it is desirable to know whether or not it is possible to have inputs control out. puts independently, i.e., a single input influences a single output. The publication has been cited so frequently because it provides a complete solution to this “decoupling” probl...

A major question for the physiology of the central nervous system (CNS) has always been this: what lawful relationships hold between impulses which are generated by external stimulation and travel inward into the CNS and those which-either directly or indirectly-reemerge from it; that is, the question of the relations between afference and efference? The CNS has been characterized as a sort of ...

With the ident i ty fraud in o u r society reaching u n precedented proportions and wi th a n increasing emphas i s o n the emerging automat ic posit ive personal ident i f ication applications, biometrics-based identif ication, especially fingerprint-based identif ication, i s receiving a lot of a t ten t ion . There are t w o m a j o r shortcomings of t he traditional approaches t o f ingerpr...

A system is descril)ed which learns fl'om examples the Linear Precedence rules in an Immedia te Dominance/Linear Precedence grammar . Given a particular hnmediate Dominance g rammar and hierarchies of feature values potentially rel evant for linearization (=the systelu's bias), the leanler generates appropriate naturM language expressions to be ewduated as positive or negative by a teacher, and...

AIMS To test the bactericidal activity of standard organ culture medium, and to compare the sensitivity and rapidity of blood culture bottles with conventional microbiological methods for detection of bacteria and fungi inoculated in a standard cornea organ culture medium. METHODS The bactericidal activity of contaminated standard organ culture medium containing 100 IU/ml penicillin, 0.1 mg/m...

We present a lexical platform t h a t has been developed for the Spanish language. It achieves portabi l i ty between different computer systems and efficiency, in t e rms of lexical coverage. A model for t he full t r e a tmen t of Spanish inflectional morphology for verbs, nouns and adjectives is presented. This model permi t s word formation based solely on morpheme concatenat ion, driven by...

Increasing the resistance of plant-fermenting bacteria to lignocellulosic inhibitors is useful to understand microbial adaptation and to develop candidate strains for consolidated bioprocessing. Here, we study and improve inhibitor resistance in Clostridium phytofermentans (also called Lachnoclostridium phytofermentans), a model anaerobe that ferments lignocellulosic biomass. We survey the resi...

An automat ic system for p lanning safe t r a j e c t o r i e s f o r a computer c o n t r o l l e d manipulator among obs tac les i s a key component o f r o b o t assembly operations. This paper describes an a lgor i thm t rans forming C a r t e s i a n o b s t a c l e s i n t o o b s t a c l e s i n t h e space o f t h e f i r s t t h r e e j o i n t s o f a man ipu la to r w i th s i...