Communication system's performance is sensitive to bandwidth, power, cost etc. There have been various solutions improve the performance, out of them, one fundamental over years design optimum modulation schemes. As research on beyond 5G heats up, we survey and explore power bandwidth efficient schemes for next generation communication systems in details. In existing literature, initially squar...

The Space Operations and Support Technical Committee (SOSTC) of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) undertook a survey of the state of the industry in implementing autonomous spacecraft systems. The Advanced Concepts Subcommittee of the SOSTC developed the survey and compiled responses from twelve different organizations operating 88 different autonomous and/or intelli...

This paper reviews “socially interactive robots”: robots for which social human–robot interaction is important. We begin by discussing the context for socially interactive robots, emphasizing the relationship to other research fields and the different forms of “social robots”. We then present a taxonomy of design methods and system components used to build socially interactive robots. Finally, ...

Production frontiers, technical efficiency, survey of applications. The modelling and estimation of frontier production functions has been an important area of econometric research during the last two decades. F~rsund, Lovell and Schmidt (1980) and Schmidt (1986) present reviews of the concepts and models involved and cite some of the empirical applications which had appeared to their respectiv...

Terrestrial Laser Scanner is a key methodology in cultural heritage survey, as it allows the representation of objects with high accuracy from the geometric point of view but also allows the generation of graphic representations of high visual impact for public (non technical) audience. For the survey of monumental structures, for which it is difficult to have contact with the object because of...

The Centre for Applied Social Surveys provides courses on survey methodology and technical information to academic social scientists and applied social researchers. In this paper we describe the audience targeted by these survey courses and the approach taken in them, which tends to focus on practical issues and the shared experiences of the course participants. The teaching of theory in such a...