We contend that our relationship with robots is too often seen within a universalistic and individualistic mind-frame. We propose a specific perspective in social robotics that we call anthrobotics. Anthrobotics starts with the choice to consider the human-machine intertwining as a dynamic union of more or less institutionalised collectives rather than separated discrete realities (individual h...

We introduce a novel kernel for comparing two text documents. The kernel is an inner product in the feature space consisting of all subsequences of length k. A subsequence is any ordered sequence of k characters occurring in the text though not necessarily contiguously. The subsequences are weighted by an exponentially decaying factor of their full length in the text, hence emphasising those oc...

This paper discusses the lessons learned in the modeling of a software fault tolerance solution built by a consortium of universities and industrial companies for an Esprit project called TIRAN. The requirements of high flexibility and modularity for the software have lead to a modeling approach strongly based on compositionality. Since the interest was for assessing both correctness and perfor...

This research study analyzes the effect of teamwork on employee performance about the staff members of Higher Education Department of Khyber Pakhtoon Khawa (KPK), Peshawar Province of Pakistan. Several measures of employee performance were analyzed including esprit de corps, team trust and recognition and rewards. There is clear evidence that teamwork and other measures of employee performance ...

The DUET blind source separation algorithm can demix an arbitrary number of speech signals usingM = 2 anechoic mixtures of the signals. DUET however is limited in that it relies upon source signals which are mixed in an anechoic environment and which are sufficiently sparse such that it is assumed that only one source is active at a given time frequency point. The DUET-ESPRIT (DESPRIT) blind so...

A data-driven approach can be fruitfully used in the speci cation and automatic generation of data-intensive Web applications, i.e., applications which make large amounts of data available on the Web. We present a multi-level architecture based on orthogonal abstractions for the de nition of the structure, derivation, navigation, composition, and presentation of Web sites; then we show how thes...

Several security definitions, proposed in the literature, are reformulated over the general model of labelled transition systems, frequently used as a suitable semantic domain for abstract concurrent languages, such as CCS. A classification of these security properties is provided. 1. This work has been partially supported by Esprit Basic research project BROADCAST n. 6360 and by Italian CNR gr...

in this paper we propose and construct fuzzy algebraic additive model, for the estimation of risk in various fields of human activities or nature’s behavior. though the proposed model is useful in a wide range of scientific fields, it was designed for to torrential risk evaluation in the area of river evros. clearly the model’s performance improves when the number of parameters and the actual d...