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Web Page Classification*
This chapter describes systems that automatically classify web pages into meaningful categories. It first defines two types of web page... -
Sequential Pattern Mining by Pattern-Growth: Principles and Extensions*
Sequential pattern mining is an important data mining problem with broad applications. However, it is also a challenging problem since the mining may... -
Intelligent Agents to Improve Adaptivity in A Web-Based Learning Environment
This chapter focuses on the use of intelligent agents in on-line learning environments in which educational organizations can equip students with... -
Marginal Filter Stability
Two fundamental aspects in the use of the Kalman Filter for simultaneous localization and map** are the issues of observability and... -
C Sigma Points
A set of p + 1 sigma points $\mathcal{S} = \{\mathcal{X}^i, W^i\}$... -
13 Usability of an Assistive Robot Manipulator: Toward a Quantitative User Evaluation
This chapter describes our research activity on the integration of a robotic arm in the environment of persons with disabilities. People who have... -
2 Rehabilitation Robotics from Past to Present – A Historical Perspective
Popular culture presents the image of a robot as a mechanical, humanoid device, often evil in intent. Those with a slightly more informed technical... -
12 Risk Reduction Mechanisms for Safe Rehabilitation Robots
Safety is one of the most important features of rehabilitation robots. However, strategies for safe rehabilitation robots are not yet clarified. A... -
4 Welfare-Oriented Service Robotic Systems: Intelligent Sweet Home & KARES II
Utopia – it would be a society where the welfare of the people is properly guaranteed. In the society, each constituent would live his/her life with... -
5 “FRIEND” – An Intelligent Assistant in Daily Life
The research and development in the field of rehabilitation robots produced a multiplicity of rehabilitation robots available as off-the- shelf... -
6 GIVING-A-HAND System: The Development of a Task-Specific Robot Appliance
The rapidly changing demographics in industrialized nations create a pressing need for effective personal assistive aids that appeal to elderly and... -
Content Based Image Compression in Biomedical High-Throughput Screening Using Artificial Neural Networks
Biomedical High-Throughput Screening (HTS) requires specific properties of image compression. Particularly especially when archiving a huge number of... -
Equivalence of Fuzzy Subgroups of Finite Abelian Groups
In this chapter, we determine the number of fuzzy subgroups of certain finite Abelian groups with respect to a suitable equivalence relation. This is... -
Lattices of Fuzzy Subgroups
Many results concerning relationships between classes of crisp subsets can be carried over to similar relationships between classes of fuzzy subsets.... -
10 A Safety Strategy for Rehabilitation Robots
It was reported previously that many MANUS users thought that the MANUS was useful, but not useful enough to gain totally independent lifestyles for... -
14 Processes for Obtaining a “Manus” (ARM) Robot within the Netherlands
This chapter describes both the current (Anno Domini 2003) and future processes of prescribing the Assistive Robotic Manipulator (ARM, also known as... -
Discriminative Clustering of Yeast Stress Response
When a yeast cell is challenged by a rapid change in the conditions, be it temperature, osmolarity, pH, nutrient or other, it starts a genome stress... -
Medical Bioinformatics: Detecting Molecular Diseases with Case-Based Reasoning
Based on the Human Genome Project, the new interdisciplinary subject of bioinformatics has become an important research topic during the last decade.... -
13 Haptic Interfaces: Collocation and Coherence Issues
Multi-modality, collocation and immersive VE nowadays represents the break-trough barrier of human computer interaction. Typical VE systems... -
6 Efficient and Precise Grasp Planning for Real World Objects
With the development of .exible and highly integrated dexterous grip** devices (e.g. fig.6.1) the research results on grasp and manipulation...