After adopting and extending the “test of truth as effective action” that Newell proposes in “A Theory of Interdisciplinary Studies,” this article proposes “living well” as the goal of knowledge processes. With this in mind, it explores disciplinarity—the unspoken assumption underlying Newell’s argument. Disciplinarity is discovered to be an historical and cultural phenomenon, demonstrating the...

The biodiversity of the Southern Balkans, part of the Mediterranean global biodiversity hot-spot, is threatened by land use intensification and abandonment, the latter causing forest encroachment of formerly open habitats. We investigated the impact of forest encroachment on butterfly species richness, community species composition and the representation of life history traits by repeated seaso...

A theorem of Eilenberg establishes that there exists a bi-jection between the set of all varieties of regular languages and the set of all varieties of finite monoids. In this article after defining, for a fixed set of sorts S and a fixed S-sorted signature Σ, the concepts of formation of congruences with respect to Σ and of formation of Σ-algebras, we prove that the algebraic lattices of all Σ...

This paper presents a geometric approach to multi-robots group formation with connectivity preservation (from a graph-theoretic perspective) among group members. The controller demonstrates consistency among different formations, as well as stability while performing dynamic switching between formations. Inter-robots collision avoidance is delivered through formation preservation, while permitt...

Formation shape control for a collection of point agents is concerned with devising decentralized control laws which ensure that the formation will move so that certain interagent distances approximate prescribed values as closely as possible. Such laws are often derived using steepest descent of a potential function which is invariant under translation and rotation, and then critical formation...

The Yilgarn Banded Iron Formations of Western Australia are topographical features that behave as terrestrial islands within the otherwise flat, semi-arid landscape. The formations are characterised by a high number of endemic species, some of which are distributed across multiple formations without inhabiting the intervening landscape. These species provide an ideal context for phylogeographic...

We review the enabling theory for the decentralized and cooperative control of formations of unmanned, autonomous vehicles. The decentralized and cooperative formation control approach combines recent results from dynamical system theory, control theory, and algebraic graph theory. The stability of vehicle formations is discussed, and the applicability of the technology concept to a variety of ...