Radical/extremist Islamist actors use social media to disseminate uncompromising stories of monist religious political orders and identities. As a reaction, counter-movements online radicalism/extremism emerged in Western societies (and beyond), while uncertainty about effective outcomes remains widespread. In bid understand how inclusionary exclusionary discursive spaces are created, we ask: H...

Neuro Nadi Method or known as Al-Baghdadi is a new method in the study of Qur’an Brunei Darussalam. The diversity forms and techniques should be emphasized order to increase reading among community especially Brunei. Therefore, surveys have been conducted on respondents studying using Method. Observations were also made see its effectiveness Qur’an. important elements discussed including teachi...

Preface The work presented in this report has been done during a one-year post-doctoral visit, from february 93 to february 94, to the Robotics laboratory of the Stanford University. Frederick Garcia was invited by Prof. Oussama Khatib to work on the ne motion assembly planning problem. Linda Tomasini, who was at this time visiting the Information System Laboratory in the team of Prof. Bernard ...

Modern robotics (Siciliano & Khatib, 2008) trends not only to be reliable, cheap, autonomous, but also cognitive, adaptive, safe and friendly for users (Dodd, 2007). New generation of robot systems is capable of self-configuration (Shen at al., 2006), self-diagnostics and self-healing (Mokhtar et. al., 2008), possesses enough sensing features and computational intelligence on board not only to ...

Trajectory planning consists in finding a way to get from a starting position to a goal position while avoiding obstacles within a given environment or navigation space. Harmonic functions may be used as potential fields for trajectory planning (Connolly et al., 1990). Such functions do not have local extrema (unlike other potential based methods as in (Khatib, 1986)), so that control algorithm...