Reinforcement learning (RL) agents with pre-specified reward functions cannot provide guaranteed safety across variety of circumstances that an uncertain system might encounter. To guarantee performance while assuring satisfaction constraints circumstances, assured autonomous control framework is presented in this article by empowering RL algorithms metacognitive capabilities. More specifically...

The shift to cloud technologies is a paradigm change that offers considerable financial and administrative gains. However governmental and business institutions wanting to tap into these gains are concerned with security issues. The cloud presents new vulnerabilities and is dominated by new kinds of applications, which calls for new security solutions. Intuitively, Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT...

The demand for minimal invasive surgery (MIS) with more rapid patient recovery creates an increasing need of high-performance technology, based on computerassisted orthopedic surgery (CAOS) with access to robot assistance. Medical Robotics has developed a multi-application platform – PinTrace – based on robot assistance. The PinTrace method is in initial clinical use for hip fractures and furth...

MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) is a technology with the potential to support multiple control systems, each with guaranteed QoS (Quality of Service), on connectionless best-effort networks. However, it does not provide all the capabilities required of a multi-service network. In particular, although resource-assured VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) can be created, there is no provision fo...

to determine the factors affecting the acceptation of rice insurance in sari township a number of 90 farmers (45 assured and 45 not assured) were sampled. the information consisted of personal (age, size of family, activity experiment, damage experiment, and non-farm income); social (studies level, agrarian regimes, locality); and geography (farm size, distance between farm to insurance broker)...