a. The theater evacuation policy affects the number of beds required to support the TO. A patient requiring 59 days of hospitalization also requires a bed and a medical staff for 59 days. He requires this whether the entire period is spent in the theater, or divided between 29 days in the theater and 30 days in CONUS. The most intensive and demanding medical requirements are experienced during ...

The basic argument of this paper is that until recently theatrical performances involving human and computer actors were not possible due to the lack of appropriate computational models for action representation, recognition, and generation. This paper surveys and classiies some recent experiments in computerized performances, and uses this classiication as a framework to establish the importan...

We propose a new IEC for musical works based on an adaptive walk on a fitness landscape of sounds. In this system, there is a virtual plane that represents the genetic space of possible musical works called fitness soundscape. The user stands on the soundscape, and hears the multiple sounds that correspond to one’s neighboring genotypes at the same time. These sounds come from different directi...

Every few years, a new “hot trend” will burst upon the scene in the world of consumer electronics. This emergence will drive a wave of popular new products throughout the market, and push them into the home theater integrator’s world. Generally speaking this will start at the cutting edge with high end enthusiasts, and be swept downward into the rest of the market, as costs decline, and accepta...