BACKGROUND Legal and ethical questions arise regarding disseminating genetic research results to family members in the event of a research participant's death; failure to return or return to legal next of kin or estate executor may not reflect participant desires. We sought to determine participant preferences for whether and to whom they would like their data released in the case of their deat...

In this paper we report on the integration of a high-level plan executor with a behavior-based architecture. The executor is designed to execute plans that solve problems in partially observable domains. We discuss the different modules of the overall architecture and how we made the different modules interact using a shared representation. We also give a detailed description of the hierarchica...

We present a formal specification of an executor of Extended Simple Colored Petri Nets (ESCP-nets), meant to be externally supervised. The execution of an ESCP-net proceeds through discrete steps, each performed in response to a call from an external supervisor, in charge of indicating which controlled transitions are allowed to fire and which tokens can be assigned to their controlled variable...

1 Abstract Introspection in computer systems enables a computer to examine its own computational behavior. Knowledge gained by introspection can be used by the computer to optimize itself and to explain its own behavior to other computers or to human observers. In increasingly complex computer systems, introspective computers can be applied to managing their own complexity. A computer capable o...

| This paper deals with the problem of planning and controlling the motion of a car like vehicle moving in a dynamic and roadway like environment. The contribution presented here is a motion controller which executes in a reactive way a given nominal motion plan. Such a plan is made up of a smooth trajectory C and of time constraints of the type \reach location l at time t l ". Data concerning ...

This paper presents our HPF compiler using our modified inspector-executor method for implementing accesses to a distributed array. In our modified method, a compiler runs an inspector during compile time to obtain the information of data dependency among node processors, and it uses that information to optimize communication code included in the executor. This paper presents our idea, performa...