Special issue on asperity contacts and lubrication aspects

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Special Issue: Social Aspects of E-Business

i The dust has now settled from the dot.com boom and burst, and the euphoria and pessimism have been replaced by more cool-headed, rational thinking and actions underpinned by robust theories and conceptual frameworks. There are even signs of a steady e-business recovery, and more and more e-businesses have become profitable. The dot.com burst did not mark the end of the Internet and e-business...

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Special issue on practical aspects of automated reasoning

The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) has provided the TPTP problem library with problems that have large numbers of axioms, of which typically only a few are needed to prove any given conjecture. The LTB division of the CADE ATP System Competition tests the performance of ATP systems on these types of problems. The SUMO problems were used in the SMO category of the LTB division in 2008. T...

Special issue on whole-body control of contacts and dynamics for humanoid robots

We describe the research and integrati n methods we developed to give the HRP-2 humanoid robot the capability to climb vertical industrial-norm ladders. Our approach mak s use of our multi-contact planner and multiobjective closed-loop control form lated as a QP (quadratic program). First, a set of contacts to climb the ladder is planned off-line (automatically or by the user). These contacts a...