A number of international competitions for mobile robots have been created and conducted over the last 20 years. This article discusses three of the arguably most prominent event series. We highlight scope, rules, robot designs and robot evolution over the years for the Micromouse Contest, AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and RoboCup Robot Soccer and discuss their contributions to mobile robot res...

We address the problem of transferring semantic annotations to new languages using parallel corpora. Previous work has transferred these annotations on a token-to-token basis, an approach that is sensitive to alignment errors and translation shifts. We present a global approach to transfer that aggregates information across the whole parallel corpus and leads to more robust labellers. We build ...

Despite the success of statecharts, surprisingly little research effort has been devoted to improving code synthesis techniques for them. The work presented below is an outcome of growing interest in the area. We discuss one possible improvement for code generators retaining explicit information about the model hierarchy. The problem of dynamic scope for multitarget transitions is described and...

I propose the first strictly compositional semantic account of same. New data, including especially NP-internal uses such as two men with the same name, suggests that same in its basic use is a quantificational element taking scope over nominals. Given type-lifting as a generally available mechanism, I show that this follows naturally from the fact that same is an adjective. Independently-motiv...

Purpose – This paper seeks to scope the nature and form of practices, understandings and institutional arrangements thatmight contribute to the successful ‘‘design’’ and continuity of Communities of Practice (CoP) in a state government department in Australia. The study aims to provide research evidence to support the design and establishment of a CoP based on systems thinking within this depar...