Previous work on self-reconfiguring modular robots has concentrated primarily on hardware and reconfiguration algorithms for particular systems. In this paper, we introduce a new type of generic locomotion algorithm for self-reconfigurable robots. The algorithms presented here are inspired by cellular automata, using geometric rules to control module actions. The actuation model used is a gener...

An ontology can be seen as a reference model to describe the entities which exist in an universe of discourse and their properties. These entities may be individuals, classes, relationships, and functions. In sum anything that may be useful to describe specific models. In this paper we present a generic task ontology for scheduling problems. The ontology is generic in the sense that it is both ...

We develop a new model that simultaneously captures two principal sources of heterogeneity: variation across segments of consumers and variation across clusters of products. We focus on the recorded music industry as a managerial context, and construct a flexible duration-time model that can be used to capture the dynamic purchase patterns across a broad portfolio of different albums. Our basic...

Before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in Iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. Being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of Iran's seventh president, Hasan Rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. The current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical moves tha...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasingly being integrated in the design and management of construction projects. Not only are sophisticated electronic tools being widely used to help construction professionals design and manage buildings ICT is assisting these people to work in virtual, collaborative electronic environments. As a result there is a trend to move from co-loc...

Textbooks considered as one of the most important genres of academic writings would guarantee effective teaching and learning in EFL/ESL courses. Since textbooks are gaining more and more importance, the knowledge of their rhetorical organization that provides learners and teachers with efficient use of their content seems necessary. This article describes the rhetorical organization of the tex...

We establish a framework for doing second order conformal perturbation theory the symmetric orbifold Sym$^N(T^4)$ to all orders in $N$. This allows us compute how 1/4-BPS states of D1-D5 system on $AdS_3\times S^3\times T^4$ are lifted as we move away from point. As an application confirm previous observation that large $N$ limit not can be do get lifted. provides evidence supersymmetric index ...