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Dependable Traffic Control Strategies for Urban and Freeway Networks
Traffic congestion is a growing problem in many countries around the world. It has been recognized that instead of constructing more roads and...
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What Are Multimodal Systems? Why Do They Need Evaluation?—Theoretical Background
The following section introduces relevant concepts and definitions. After that, the cognitive foundations of multimodal interaction are briefly...
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Socially guided intrinsic motivation for robot learning of motor skills
This paper presents a technical approach to robot learning of motor skills which combines active intrinsically motivated learning with imitation...
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The Five Robots—A Taxonomy for Roboethics
The distillation of four “gravitational centers” of discourse on the ethically relevant issues regarding robots constitutes the elements of the...
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Impressions of Humanoids: The Development of a Measure for Evaluating a Humanoid
In this study, we focus on what perspectives people use to perceive a humanoid, and we explore the basic dimensions of a humanoid evaluation by...
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An adaptive penalty function-based maximin desirability index for close tolerance multiple-response optimization problems
Simultaneous optimization of multiple-quality characteristics and determining the process settings is a critical and difficult task for...
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Behavioral OM Experiments: Critical Inquiry Reawakening Practical Issues in Research
Behavioural Operations Management is a multi-disciplinary branch of OM that explicitly considers the effects of human behaviour on process and system...
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Ant Colony Based Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems
The use of metaheuristic approaches to deal with dynamic optimization problems has been largely studied, being evolutionary techniques the more...
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Reliability and Validity Evaluation Based on Monte Carlo Simulations in Two-Stage Cluster Sampling on Sensitive Question Survey
In this paper, additive randomized response technique (RRT) model was presented in application to asking questions on sensitive topic in a survey of...
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Do Expectations Match Reality When Firms Consider the Risks of Offshoring? A Comparison of Risk Assessment by Firms with and Without Offshoring Experience
The risk associated with offshoring is a recurrent theme in research. However, previous research has mainly given a static picture of offshoring...
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Information Dynamics in Networks and Phase Transitions
As outlined in Sect. 2.4 the topology of networks has attracted much recent attention, however their time-series dynamics remains relatively poorly...
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How Humans Teach Agents
Human beings are a largely untapped source of in-the-loop knowledge and guidance for computational learning agents, including robots. To effectively...
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A multi-attribute approach for release time and reliability trend analysis of a software
In a Software Development Life Cycle the testing phase is given a lot of importance. But testing cannot be done indefinitely due to many reasons...
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An Innovative E-Learning Environment Produced by an Academic European Consortium
This paper presents the main output, and its pedagogical fundaments, of the Socrates/Minerva project Individualized Learning Enhanced by Virtual...
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Relations between transformational leadership, organizational learning, knowledge management, organizational innovation, and organizational performance: an empirical investigation of manufacturing firms
The aim of this study is to determine relations between transformational leadership, organizational learning, knowledge management, organizational...
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A Novel Evaluation Framework for Teleoperation and a Case Study on Natural Human-Arm-Imitation Through Motion Capture
Although tele-operation has a long history, when it comes to tuning, comparison, and evaluation of tele-operation systems, no standard framework...
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Exploiting social partners in robot learning
Social learning in robotics has largely focused on imitation learning. Here we take a broader view and are interested in the multifaceted ways that a...
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IPPR Implementation
This Chapter faces the implementation of the workflow foreseen by the IPPR methodology. Several instruments, both well established and originally...
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Design Thinking in Engineering Education and its Adoption in Technology-driven Startups
As innovation becomes the cornerstone for new problem solving and creation of private and public value, this paper introduces the design thinking...
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From Ants to Robots and Back: How Robotics Can Contribute to the Study of Collective Animal Behavior
Swarm robotics has developed partly from biological discoveries that have been made on the organization of animal societies during the last thirty...