The design of current natural language-oriented robot architectures enables certain architectural components to circumvent moral reasoning capabilities. One example this is reflexive generation clarification requests as soon referential ambiguity detected in a human utterance. As shown previous research, can lead robots (1) miscommunicate their dispositions and (2) weaken perception or applicat...

Mobile computing systems are made up of different components among which Mobile Support Stations (MSSs) play a key role. This paper proposes an efficient MSS-based non-blocking coordinated checkpointing scheme for mobile computing environment. In the scheme suggested nearly all aspects of checkpointing and their related overheads are forwarded to the MSSs and as a result the workload of Mobile ...

Abstract This paper investigates time variations in the implementation of legislative requests by Swiss government. Combining literature on executive–legislative relations with findings from research, we focus procedural level and argue that delays can occur because government does not want to, cannot or should implement faster. We test these mechanisms using a unique database, which enables us...