Biological systems, from embryos to social insects, get tremendous mileage by having vast numbers of cheap and unreliable individuals cooperate to achieve complex goals. We are also rapidly building new kinds of distributed systems with similar characteristics, from multi-modular robots and robot swarms, to vast sensor networks. Can we engineer collective systems to achieve the kind of complexi...

Editorial (p. 165) Guest Editorial: The Future of Research on Evidence-based Developmental Violence Prevention in Europe – Introduction to the Focus Section Manuel Eisner / Tina Malti (pp. 166 – 175) Violence Prevention in Austrian Schools: Implementation and Evaluation of a National Strategy Christiane Spiel / Petra Wagner / Dagmar Strohmeier (pp. 176 – 186) Clinical Significance of Parent Tra...

Creation myth: In the ritual rooms of the Pueblo cultures in North America, a hole in the ground symbolically represents the passage of the tribes into this world. (Photo: Wikipedia.) The ritual rooms of the Pueblo culture in North America, known as kiva, typically contain a hole in the ground, the sípapu. It symbolically represents the origin of the tribe, the passage through which its people ...

Editorial (p. 165) Guest Editorial: The Future of Research on Evidence-based Developmental Violence Prevention in Europe – Introduction to the Focus Section Manuel Eisner / Tina Malti (pp. 166 – 175) Violence Prevention in Austrian Schools: Implementation and Evaluation of a National Strategy Christiane Spiel / Petra Wagner / Dagmar Strohmeier (pp. 176 – 186) Clinical Significance of Parent Tra...

An improved spark ignition model has been developed and implemented into the KIVA-3V code. In this model, the spark ignition kernel growth is tracked by Lagrangian particle markers. The effects of turbulent flow and spark discharge energy on the kernel growth are considered. After the ignition kernel size exceeds a critical size related to the integral turbulent length scale of the flow, the tu...

The V-Unit is an optional elective unit that students can take for credit at Carnegie Mellon University. The goal of a V-Unit project is to see how computer science and technology can improve society in non-traditional and under-funded areas. GlobalSale is an undertaking implemented as part of the VUnit framework and it tries to show how technology can lead to a more fair-trade global market. O...

As public research grants for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have diminished and become increasingly competitive, researchers have to search for alternative funding sources. Crowdfunding, in which projects are funded directly from the public through the internet, might represent a potential source of RCT funding. However, whether or not crowdfunding campaigns for clinical RCTs are successf...

Purpose: The provision of a method for thoughtful decision-making is the core purpose artificial intelligence research and development. primary goal (AI) to give computers ability do intellectual tasks such as making decisions, solving problems, seeing their surroundings, understanding human communication. Amazon famous using robots—roughly 30,000 them—within its distribution centres. company h...

Our work addresses issues related to the cohabitation of service robots and people in unstructured environments. We propose new planning techniques to empower robot means-end reasoning with the capability of taking into account human intentions and preferences. We also address the problem of human activity recognition in instrumented environments. We employ a constraint-based approach to realiz...