Search results for "Soft"

An Information Systems Design Theory for Integrated Requirements and Release Management Systems

2009

High-tech companies need to collect and analyze requirements and allocate them to appropriate product releases in market-driven product development. Development activities are typically scattered across multiple sites and involve multiple partners in different countries, complicating requirements and release management. Flexible, scalable, and secure groupware-based support for the activities provides substantial payoffs. Yet, the extant literature provides little theoretical guidance for designing and using requirements and release management systems in multi-site, multi-partner environments. This article develops the meta-requirements and a meta-design of an information systems design the…

Artificial intelligence centric scientific research on COVID-19 : an analysis based on scientometrics data

2023

AbstractWith the spread of the deadly coronavirus disease throughout the geographies of the globe, expertise from every field has been sought to fight the impact of the virus. The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially, has been the center of attention due to its capability to produce trustworthy results in a reasonable time. As a result, AI centric based research on coronavirus (or COVID-19) has been receiving growing attention from different domains ranging from medicine, virology, and psychiatry etc. We present this comprehensive study that closely monitors the impact of the pandemic on global research activities related exclusively to AI. In this article, we produce highly info…

Observing The Decision-Making Process

2016

International audience; In this chapter we ask how knowledge can be acquired about the decision-making processes associated with residential choice. As shown by the results of the many areas of research set out in chapter 2, a great number of factors may influence the decision to move home. Because we are more especially interested in the actual decision-making process, we must consider the mental factors that may condition it.

Component search in a metaCASE environment

2001

D.RE.A.M.: A software for uncertainties analysis in retrospective dosimetry

2018

Accidental exposures to ionising radiations are nowadays managed with assistance from biological and physical retrospective dosimetry which are able to provide individual estimates of dose absorbed by victims. The aim of this work is to describe the development of biodosimetry analysis software within the "EURADOS Working Group 10—Retrospective dosimetry" Task group 10.6. Methods The software has been developed in Python code language that is easy to learn, read, use and extensible (it is possible to add new modules). It can implement C/C++/Fortran, Java functions. It is embeddable in applications and is open source. It is extremely portable to Unix/Linux, Windows, Mac operating systems. Th…

Automated transient hypertext support for software maintenance

2000

Modeling ontologies for robotic environments

2002

On the basis of a multiple abstraction levels specification process, we developed a representational model for environmental robotic knowledge through the definition of a set of ontologies using a multi perspective approach. A general ontological model for typical indoor environments has been first developed, followed by its specialization using an implementation perspective. Actual software implementation of the ontology has been obtained via a XML-based markup language, used to build a repository for robotic environmental knowledge. Copyright 2002 ACM.

Rilkean Memories and the Self of a Robot

2019

This paper discusses the concept of Rilkean memories, recently introduced by Mark Rowlands, to analyze the complex intermix of hardware and software related to the self of a robot. The Rilkean memory of an event is related to the trace of that episode left in the body of the individual. It transforms the act of remembering into behavioral and bodily dispositions, thus generating the peculiar behavioral style of the individual, which is at the basis of her autobiographical self. In the case of long-life operating robots, a similar process occurs: the software of the robot has to cope with the changes that happened in the body of the robot because of damaging events in its operational life. T…

Stiffness Estimation and Adaptive Control for Soft Robots

2022

Nonostante la sorprendente crescita nello sviluppo dei robot ispirati alla natura, tra cui i cosiddetti soft robot, il potenziale di questi sistemi, che hanno intrinseche capacità di adattamento, non è ancora stato sfruttato a pieno. La ricerca ha principalmente considerato il controllo in retroazione della posizione dei giunti del robot, lasciando la gestione della cedevolezza di questi ultimi ancora in anello aperto. Peraltro, le attuali limitazioni nel processo di produzione degli attuatori a cedevolezza variabile e l'inevitabile variabilità nel tempo degli elementi elastici costitutivi, i quali sono soggetti ad usura e deformazione plastica, rendono il problema della determinazione prec…

Expiration of Time Limits and the Ius Appellationis

2022

The rotal decree under comment offers the cue to address the delicate topic of the appeal and the peremptory time limits for its presentation, especially in light of the recent reform of the canonical matrimonial process promulgated by Pope Francis.On the basis of the new structure of the process of matrimonial nullity appears, in fact, evident the legislative disfavor, towards the appeal, seen as a potentially dangerous tool for the salus animarum of the faithful for the risk of procedural lengths connected to it, so as to provide for a prior examination of admissibility in order to avoid that they were made for the purpose of mere dilatory, that is, for the sole purpose of lengthening the…