Prosthodontic rehabilitation of a patient with poorly resorbed ridges in a conventional manner is a difficult task. Modifications in the treatment procedures should be considered to fulfill the patient's functional and esthetic desires. The key to successful denture therapy lies in precise execution of the treatment plan formulated by evaluation of a detailed comprehensive history and thorough ...

Hemisphere asymmetry can be influenced by hand contractions. Brain imaging studies have indicated that pre-performance left-hand contractions may reduce verbal-analytical engagement in motor planning, whereas right-hand increase planning. This study examined whether a contraction protocol reduced during practice of golf putting task, thereby causing implicit learning. Forty-eight golf-novices w...

This paper describes HICAP, a general-purpose, interactive case-based plan authoring architecture that can be applied to decision support tasks to yield a hierarchical course of action. It integrates a hierarchical task editor with a conversational case-based planner. HICAP maintains both a task hierarchy representing guidelines that constrain the nal plan and the hierarchical social organizati...

We propose novel techniques for task allocation and planning in multi-robot systems operating in uncertain environments. Task allocation is performed simultaneously with planning, which provides more detailed information about individual robot behaviour, but also exploits the independence between tasks to do so efficiently. We use Markov decision processes to model robot behaviour and linear te...

Service-Oriented Computing is a cornerstone for the realization of user needs through the automatic composition of services from service descriptions and user tasks, i.e., high-level descriptions of the user needs. Yet, automatic service composition processes commonly assume that service descriptions and user tasks share the same abstraction level, and that services have been pre-designed to in...

This paper describes a multi-layered hierarchical motion planning strategy for a class of self-reconfigurable modular robotic systems, I-Cubes. The approach is based on the synthesis of motion on the basis of metacubes, which have a particular structure possessing 8 Cubes and 16 Links. The developed strategy organizes the metacube motions and the corresponding cube-level motions. At the lowest ...

Contingency analysis and reaction is a critical task to be carried out by any airplane to guarantee its safe operation in a non-segregated airspace. Pilot’s reactions to any kind of incidences that may occur in-flight, like engine malfunctions, loss of electrical power, hydraulic failure, unexpected weather, etc, will determine the fate of the flight. Nowadays, contingency reactions are mainly ...

Ethics is a crucial issue in the different dimensions of human life; hence, there seems to be a dire need for research to be conducted on ethics in different domains including translation studies and interpreting. This qualitative-exploratory research aimed at investigating the attitudes and strategies of applying ethics in in- terpreting through employing a triangulation method. Twenty interpr...

This chapter presents a middle-term new load adjustment approach by overlapping for a set of jobs in a job-shop context, guaranteeing the existence of a limited capacity schedule without scheduling under the assumption of pre-emptive tasks. The proposed approach is based on the exploitation of the tasks scheduling time segments overlapping and on the distribution of the job’s margins between ta...