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After a long period, in which the research focused mainly on industrial robotics, nowadays scientists aim to build machines able to act autonomously in unstructured domains, and to interface friendly with humans, while performing intelligently their assigned tasks. Such intelligent autonomous systems are now being intensively developed, and are ready to be applied to every field, from social life to modern enterprises. We believe the following years will be increasingly characterised by their extensive use. This is dramatically changing the whole scenario of human society.
This book is the fourth offical archival publication devoted to RoboCup and documents the achievements presented at the Fourth Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, RoboCup 2000, held in Melbourne, Australia, in August/September 2000. The book presents the following parts: introductory overview and survey, championship papers by the winners of the competitions, finalist papers for the RoboCup challenge awards, papers and posters presented at the workshop, team description of a large number of participating teams. This book is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community as well as a valuable source of reference and inspiration for R & D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.
This book proposes that organizational policies are what ensure the institutionalization and sustainability of futures thinking in organizations. It presents several case studies from corporations and other institutions that describe effective use of foresight methods and internal policies to respond to rapid change. The case studies address changing trends in technology, globalization and/or workforce diversity, and the impact on the economic and political well-being of the organization. The editors also develop an organizational capability maturity model for futures thinking as well as providing questions for discussion that promote critical review of each case chapter. This book will inform scholars and organizational leaders how best to utilize foresight methodologies and organizational policies to sustain successful management strategies within futures thinking organizations. Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
This book presents leading-edge research in the field of computer research, technology and applications. Each contribution has been carefully selected for inclusion based on the significance of the research to the field. Summaries of all chapters are gathered at the beginning of the book and an in-depth index is presented to facilitate access.
This book describes the application of systems thinking across a broad field of cases representing research, teaching, decision support and construction. All cases are presented by experts who have actually been involved in the activities they describe. The broad selection of cases captures the great variation of systems thinking, and how it is integrated into models and theories and solid knowledge pertaining to different substantive areas.
This book constitues the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications and the Fourth International Symposium on Mobile Agents, ASA/MA 2000 held in Zürich, Switzerland in September 2000. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on migration, security issues, systems and applications, mobile agent applications, applications of multi-agent systems, communication and mobility control, cooperation and interaction.
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This volume contains papers accepted for presentation at the Fifteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI99) held at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden from July 30 through August 1, 1999. This conference continues a 15-year tradition of providing an international forum for exchange of ideas on problems of reasoning, under uncertainty. During those 15 years, UAI has moved from a little-noticed niche at the edge of the field, solidly into the mainstream of artificial intelligence research and practice. Research first presented at UAI has contributed significantly to advances in a number of related fields and has found application in a wide variety of domains. The UAI conference has acquired a reputation for excellence, and the proceedings have become an important reference source for high-quality work in the field.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, MAAMAW '94, held in Odense, Denmark, in August 1994. The 15 revised full papers included in the book were carefully selected from the workshop contributions; they address various current aspects of multi-agent systems, with a certain focus on applicational aspects. In addition, there is an invited paper "Agents: towards a society in which humans and computers cohabitate" by Mario Tokoro.
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