Motion autonomy has been a long standing issue in Robotics. Since the late sixties, several control architectures have been proposed. It seems accepted now that such architectures should feature both deliberative and reactive capabilities. The control architecture presented in this chapter has been designed for car-like vehicle. The road network is a complex environment (it is partially known a...

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation is responsible for one in four strokes, which may be prevented by oral anticoagulation, an underused therapy around the world. Considering the challenges imposed by this sort of treatment, mobile health support for shared decision-making may improve patients' knowledge and optimize the decisional process. OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate a mobile application to...

This article introduces both a new algorithm for reconstructing epsilon-machines from data, as well as the decisional states. These are de ned as the internal states of a system that lead to the same decision, based on a user-provided utility or pay-o function. The utility function encodes some a priori knowledge external to the system, it quanti es how bad it is to make mistakes. The intrinsic...

Decision makers are influenced by the frame of information such that preferences vary depending on whether survival or mortality data are presented. Research is inconsistent as to whether and how age impacts framing effects. This paper presents two studies that used qualitative analyses of think-aloud protocols to understand how the type of information used in the decision making process varies...

Knowledge representation and engineering techniques are becoming useful and popular components of hybrid integrated systems used to solve complicated practical problems in different disciplines. These techniques offer features such as: learning from experience, handling noisy and incomplete data, helping with decision making, and predicting capabilities. In this paper, we present a multi-domain...

background: educational interventions to promote physical activity are one of the health priorities. a theoretical approach to promote and maintain physical activity is the transtheoretical model (ttm). this research was conducted to determine the effects of this model on students' physical activity habits in 2011. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 200 students in two grou...