Smoking kills 5 million people each year, an annual death toll that is expected soon to reach 10 million. Therefore, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of this global health concern. It is my sincere hope that the combined body of expertise assembling for this conference will contribute to reducing the tobacco-induced disease burden by disseminating the latest research findings, for...

Fukuda was among the rst to consider teams of robots working together [9.]. His cellular robot system (CEBOT) is a collection of heterogeneous robotic agents which are capable of assembling and disassembling themselves. Imagine, for example, a self-assembling ship in bottle. This ability to allow complex structures to be constructed on-site and the additional capability of recon guring the comb...