This paper aims to lay down the foundations of an approach to autonomous mobile robot (AMR) navigation based on the explicit representation of mental entities (desire, intention, obligation, etc.) underlying robot behavior, considered as autonomous active entities. The approach is intended to integrate concepts from the area of distributed architectures and of mental entity representation and i...

The task of opinion mining from product reviews is to extract the product entities, opinions on the entities and determine whether the opinions are positive, negative or neutral. Reasonable performance on this task has been achieved by employing rule-based, statistical approaches or generative learning models such as hidden Markov model (HMMs). In this paper, we proposed a discriminative model ...

The efficiency of conventional centralised control in logistics is limited due to the complexity, the dynamics, and the distribution of logistics processes. The paradigm of autonomous logistics aims at overcoming these limitations by delegating decision-making to local logistics entities such as packages or containers. Represented by software agents, these entities must cooperate with each othe...

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has proposed a set of categories and definitions to create a United States national standard for short-form privacy notices on mobile devices. These notices are intended to facilitate user decision-making by categorizing both smartphone data to be shared and the entities with which that data is shared. In order to determine w...

The Anthropocene is pitting human innovation against the planetary boundaries for sustainable well-being. While our species’ inventiveness has indisputably made lives easier, byproduct too often release of harmful new materials, chemicals, wastes, and modified organisms into environment. Urgent action needed to regulate these “novel entities” before we unknowingly cross safe operating limits Ea...

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has proposed a set of categories and definitions to create a United States national standard for short-form privacy notices on mobile devices. These notices are intended to facilitate user decision-making by categorizing both smartphone data to be shared and the entities with which that data is shared. In order to determine w...