The conceptualization of the notion of a system in systems engineering, as exemplified in, for instance, the engineering standard IEEE Std 1220-1998, is problematic when applied to the design of socio-technical systems. This is argued using Intelligent Transportation Systems as an example. A preliminary conceptualization of socio-technical systems is introduced which includes technical and soci...

, 754 (2014); 343 Science et al. Justin Werfel Construction Team Designing Collective Behavior in a Termite-Inspired Robot This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. clicking here. colleagues, clients, or customers by , you can order high-quality copies for your If you wish to distribute this article to others here. following the guidelines can be obtained by Permission to republ...

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[1] This paper examines the ferrous and ferric iron mineralogy of rocks inferred from 246 visible/near-infrared (430–1010 nm) multispectral observations made by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit’s Pancam on its traverse from its landing site to its second Winter Haven location. Principal component, correspondence analyses, and a sequential maximum angle convex cone technique were used to identi...

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COVER A multirobot construction system inspired by mound-building termites. Independent climbing robots with onboard sensors automatically build user-specifi ed structures out of specialized brick-sized building material. The robots are limited to local sensing and coordinate their activity indirectly by manipulating their shared environment and reacting to what they encounter. See pages 742 an...

Two of the major branches in secure multi-party computation research are secret sharing and garbled circuits. This work succeeds in combining these to enable seamlessly switching to the technique more efficient for the required functionality. As an example, we add garbled circuits based IEEE 754 floating-point numbers to a secret sharing environment achieving very high efficiency and the first,...