Since ancient times travellers and tourists were carving or writing their names and messages on historic landmarks. This behaviour has prevailed to this day as tourists try to leave their marks at places they visit. Such behaviour, today often seen as vandalism, is particularly problematic since the society tries to preserve historic landmarks while graffiti often leave indelible markings. One ...

In many cases several entities, such as commercial companies, need to work together towards the achievement of joint goals, while hiding certain private information. Multi-agent STRIPS (MASTRIPS) is a new and attractive model for describing collaborative multi-agent privacy preserving planning, which is appropriate for such problems. In single agent classical planning, landmarks are key to cons...

Until 25 years ago the only possible way of communicating with the "intrauterine" inmate apart from the fetal movements observed by the mother herself, was by auscultation of the fetal heart beats with a simple stethoscope. The following statement made by the two English pediatricians DOBBS and GAIRDNER in 1966 sums up the situation [23]. "Up to now the formidable inaccessibility of the human f...

Provision of historical information based on geographical location represents a new scope of connecting the present of a certain location or landmark with its history through a timescape panorama. This may be achieved by exploring a linear timeline of photos for certain areas and landmarks that have both historic and modern photos. Matching modern to historical images requires a special effort ...