The emergence of large information systems has pushed software specification into the area of business modelling to adequately capture and consider business requirements. At the same time, there has been a move toward techniques for specifying the behaviours of and the knowledge associated with intelligent agents as these are increasingly found as important components of those information syste...

Macaca nemestrina monkeys received unilateral interruption of the spinothalamic tract, producing contralateral hypalgesia and a bilateral decrease in amplitude of the flexion reflex. These effects on operant escape and reflex responses to electrocutaneous stimulation (ES) were monitored for months to evaluate relationships between the extent of each lesion and the presence or absence of recover...

RANSAC (random sample consensus) is a robust algorithm for model fitting and outliers’ removal, however, it is neither efficient nor reliable enough to meet the requirement of many applications where time and precision is critical. Various algorithms have been developed to improve its performance for model fitting. A new algorithm named PURSAC (purposive sample consensus) is introduced in this ...

rhetoric – which means correspondence of discourse to the conditions of the audience – has always been considered as the manifestation of the quran’s inimitability and matchlessness. accordingly, semantics has been invented to obtain an exact understanding of the different dimensions of rhetoric in discourse in general, and in the divine word in particular. this science sets out to inspect disc...

In this paper we present a new framework for detection of dynamic obstacles in tire unstructured outdoor road environment by purposively irttegmting binocular color image sequence. In our system, color image segmentation, stereo obstacle detection, visual egomotion estirnation,and moving object analysis, are all built-in task-oriented modules and hence are eficient and robust. Most of these fun...

Recent approaches in Multi-Agent Systems are focusing on providing models and methodologies for the design of environments and special purpose tools supposed to scale up complexities. Among others, the Agents and Artifacts (A&A) approach introduced the notion af artifact as first class abstraction providing agents with external facilities, services and coordination medium explicitely conceived ...

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a unique proportional whisker sensor and our general behaviour based software architecture. The Architecture for Behaviour Based Agents (ABBA) is used to realise purposive mobile robot navigation in a cluttered indoor environment. The whisker was developed specifically to meet the requirements of high speed and close wall following. We ...

Retraction Note: The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this Article. After publication, concerns were raised regarding the authenticity of images presented in Figs. 3, 5, 6 and 8. corresponding author confirmed that altered by a third party. Additionally, article contains substantial text overlap with previous paper from same group [1] Introduction Experimental sections. therefore no longer confide...