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View article: Heuristic satisficing inferential decision making in human and robot active perception
Heuristic satisficing inferential decision making in human and robot active perception Open
Inferential decision-making algorithms typically assume that an underlying probabilistic model of decision alternatives and outcomes may be learned a priori or online. Furthermore, when applied to robots in real-world settings they often p…
View article: Sette domande sui diritti delle minoranze di religione e convinzione e sulla loro misurazione
Sette domande sui diritti delle minoranze di religione e convinzione e sulla loro misurazione Open
Seven questions on the rights of religious or belief minorities and how to measure them ABSTRACT: This paper is the outcome of a research project titled "Atlas of religious or belief minority rights" (atlasminorityrights.eu) which is aimed…
View article: Persistent Schedule Evaluation and Adaptive Re-planning for Maritime Search Tasks
Persistent Schedule Evaluation and Adaptive Re-planning for Maritime Search Tasks Open
Search operations performed by adaptive autonomous maritime vehicles have been a topic of considerable interest for many years. Such operations require carefully scheduled coordination of multiple vehicles performing search tasks across th…
View article: RealTHASC—a cyber-physical XR testbed for AI-supported real-time human autonomous systems collaborations
RealTHASC—a cyber-physical XR testbed for AI-supported real-time human autonomous systems collaborations Open
Today’s research on human-robot teaming requires the ability to test artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for perception and decision-making in complex real-world environments. Field experiments, also referred to as experiments “in the …
View article: Heuristic Satisficing Inferential Decision Making in Human and Robot Active Perception
Heuristic Satisficing Inferential Decision Making in Human and Robot Active Perception Open
Inferential decision-making algorithms typically assume that an underlying probabilistic model of decision alternatives and outcomes may be learned a priori or online. Furthermore, when applied to robots in real-world settings they often p…
View article: È possibile misurare i diritti delle minoranze di religione e convinzione?
È possibile misurare i diritti delle minoranze di religione e convinzione? Open
Is it possible to measure religious or belief minority rights?
ABSTRACT: Is it possible to measure how much the legal systems of the European Union countries respect and promote the rights of religious or belief minorities? Based on the f…
View article: Timber trade in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): effectiveness of timber parks in tackling tax frauds/Commerce du bois dans l'est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC): efficacité des parcs á bois dans la lutte contre la fraude fiscale
Timber trade in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): effectiveness of timber parks in tackling tax frauds/Commerce du bois dans l'est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC): efficacité des parcs á bois dans la lutte contre la fraude fiscale Open
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) shares borders with nine countries and has around 150 million hectares of tropical moist forests. A moratorium on logging titles has been in place since 2002 and infrastructure is very poor. The c…
View article: What Does the Future Hold for Freedom of Religion and Belief?
What Does the Future Hold for Freedom of Religion and Belief? Open
Let me begin with a methodological remark. What I can offer is a European perspective of religious freedom in an intercultural world. The horizon of this ‘Comment’ piece will be global, but the point of view is inevitably European. Only Go…
View article: Cell Multi-Bernoulli (Cell-MB) Sensor Control for Multi-Object Search-While-Tracking (SWT)
Cell Multi-Bernoulli (Cell-MB) Sensor Control for Multi-Object Search-While-Tracking (SWT) Open
Information-driven control can be used to develop intelligent sensors that can optimize their measurement value based on environmental feedback. In object tracking applications, sensor actions are chosen based on the expected reduction in …
View article: NN-Poly: Approximating common neural networks with Taylor polynomials to imbue dynamical system constraints
NN-Poly: Approximating common neural networks with Taylor polynomials to imbue dynamical system constraints Open
Recent advances in deep learning have bolstered our ability to forecast the evolution of dynamical systems, but common neural networks do not adhere to physical laws, critical information that could lead to sounder state predictions. This …
View article: A Fast-Tracking-Particle-Inspired Flow-Aided Control Approach for Air Vehicles in Turbulent Flow
A Fast-Tracking-Particle-Inspired Flow-Aided Control Approach for Air Vehicles in Turbulent Flow Open
Natural phenomena such as insect migration and the thermal soaring of birds in turbulent environments demonstrate animals’ abilities to exploit complex flow structures without knowledge of global velocity profiles. Similar energy-harvestin…
View article: Informative Multiview Planning for Underwater Sensors
Informative Multiview Planning for Underwater Sensors Open
Many modern imaging sensors must obtain multiple looks or "views" of a target at different orientations to automatically classify it with high confidence. Therefore, when tasked with classifying many targets, a mobile sensor may need to tr…
View article: Real-Time Communication Control in Decentralized Autonomous Sensor Networks
Real-Time Communication Control in Decentralized Autonomous Sensor Networks Open
Minimizing the amount of communication required by a sensor network is crucial to minimizing both energy and time consumption, as well to operating covertly and robustly in communication-contested environments. This paper presents a novel …
View article: Religija u evropskim javnim prostorima / Religion in the European Public Spaces
Religija u evropskim javnim prostorima / Religion in the European Public Spaces Open
This chapter discusses the distinguish between media cases from court cases, concerning Muslims and Sikhs which deal with religious dress codes in the common, political and institutional public spaces. It proves the real issue is not the r…
View article: Tying the Knot: A Holistic Approach to the Enhancement of Religious Minority Rights and Freedom of Religion
Tying the Knot: A Holistic Approach to the Enhancement of Religious Minority Rights and Freedom of Religion Open
The debate on religious minority rights has long been stranded in the shallows of a sterile juxtaposition between the politics of sameness and the politics of difference [...]
View article: Consistent coordination patterns provide near perfect behavior decoding in a comprehensive motor program for insect flight
Consistent coordination patterns provide near perfect behavior decoding in a comprehensive motor program for insect flight Open
Patterns of motor activity can be used to decode behavior state. Precise spike timing encoding is present in many motor systems, but is not frequently utilized to decode behavior or to examine how coordination is achieved across many motor…
View article: Rights of Man, Rights of God: An Unavoidable Tension?
Rights of Man, Rights of God: An Unavoidable Tension? Open
The conflicts between rights of God and rights of man are on the rise. On the one hand, there are some rights that are qualified as human rights in the most important international conventions and in many national constitutions. As such, t…
View article: Rumor-robust Decentralized Gaussian Process Learning, Fusion, and Planning for Modeling Multiple Moving Targets
Rumor-robust Decentralized Gaussian Process Learning, Fusion, and Planning for Modeling Multiple Moving Targets Open
This paper presents a decentralized Gaussian Process (GP) learning, fusion, and planning (RESIN) formalism for mobile sensor networks to actively learn target motion models. RESIN is characterized by both computational and communication ef…
View article: Are freedom of religion or belief and security reconcilable?
Are freedom of religion or belief and security reconcilable? Open
This paper presents the OSCE / ODIHR document on "Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security", placing it in the broader context of the debate about securitization of religion.
The author proposes to consider the document in three stages:…
View article: Adaptive Online Distributed Optimal Control of Very-Large-Scale Robotic Systems
Adaptive Online Distributed Optimal Control of Very-Large-Scale Robotic Systems Open
This paper presents an adaptive online distributed optimal control approach that is applicable to optimal planning for very-large-scale robotics systems in highly uncertain environments. This approach is developed based on the optimal mass…
View article: Scalable Gas Sensing, Mapping, and Path Planning via Decentralized Hilbert Maps
Scalable Gas Sensing, Mapping, and Path Planning via Decentralized Hilbert Maps Open
This paper develops a decentralized approach to gas distribution mapping (GDM) and information-driven path planning for large-scale distributed sensing systems. Gas mapping is performed using a probabilistic representation known as a Hilbe…
View article: Scalable Gas Sensing, Mapping, and Path Planning via Decentralized Hilbert Maps
Scalable Gas Sensing, Mapping, and Path Planning via Decentralized Hilbert Maps Open
This paper develops a decentralized approach to gas distribution mapping (GDM) and information-driven path planning for large-scale distributed sensing systems. Gas mapping is performed using a probabilistic representation known as a Hilbe…
View article: Probabilistic inferential decision-making under time pressure in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).
Probabilistic inferential decision-making under time pressure in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Open
Decisions often involve the consideration of multiple cues, each of which may inform selection on the basis of learned probabilities. Our ability to use probabilistic inference for decisions is bounded by uncertainty and constraints such a…
View article: Video-guided Camera Control for Target Tracking and Following
Video-guided Camera Control for Target Tracking and Following Open
This paper considers the problem of controlling a nonholonomic mobile ground robot equipped with an onboard camera characterized by a bounded field-of-view, tasked with detecting and following a potentially moving human target using onboar…
View article: Random Finite Set Theory and Optimal Control for Large Spacecraft Swarms.
Random Finite Set Theory and Optimal Control for Large Spacecraft Swarms. Open
Controlling large swarms of robotic agents has many challenges including, but not limited to, computational complexity due to the number of agents, uncertainty in the functionality of each agent in the swarm, and uncertainty in the swarm's…
View article: Random Finite Set Theory and Optimal Control of Large Collaborative Swarms
Random Finite Set Theory and Optimal Control of Large Collaborative Swarms Open
Controlling large swarms of robotic agents has many challenges including, but not limited to, computational complexity due to the number of agents, uncertainty in the functionality of each agent in the swarm, and uncertainty in the swarm's…
View article: Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: Encountering Our Legal Other. Edited by Anver M. Emon. London: Oneworld, 2016. Pp. 304. $30.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-1780748801.
Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: Encountering Our Legal Other. Edited by Anver M. Emon. London: Oneworld, 2016. Pp. 304. $30.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-1780748801. Open
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View article: [Policy Brief] FoRB – Recognising our differences can be our strength: enhancing transatlantic cooperation on promoting Freedom of Religion or Belief
[Policy Brief] FoRB – Recognising our differences can be our strength: enhancing transatlantic cooperation on promoting Freedom of Religion or Belief Open
As the global environment for Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) continues to deteriorate and as more governments and organisations on both sides of the Atlantic step up their commitment to FoRB advocacy, increased coordination becomes m…