This paper focuses on flexible teamwork in dynamic and realworld multi-agent domains. Such teamwork is not simply a union of agents’ simultaneous execution of individual plans, even if such execution pre-coordinated. Indeed, uncertainties in complex, dynamic domains often obstruct pre-planned coordination, with a resultant breakdown i teamwork. The central hypothesis in this paper is that for d...

This paper proposes an integrated General Regression Neural Network (GRNN) adaptation scheme for dynamic plant modelling. The scheme can be used in a noisy and dynamic environment for online process control. It possesses several distinguished features compared to the original GRNN proposed by Specht, such as flexible pattern nodes add-in and delete-off mechanism, dynamic initial sigma assignmen...

Boundary-crossing individuals, either called “boundary spanners” or “brokers”, are important for facilitating knowledge sharing between internal organizational units and between companies and their external environment. While previous literature recommends strategizing and institutionalizing the use of such boundary-crossing individuals, it gives no specific recommendations or guidelines for ho...

The need for flexible protocol stacks in communication software, instead of static, predefined protocol stacks, has been more and more asserted these last years. We present here a new environment, COMSCRIPT, which addresses the implementation of flexible protocol stacks directed by the application. COMSCRIPT is a new programming language, derived from POSTSCRIPT, which follows an interpretative...

Today’s digital era, dynamic teaching and learning in higher education has moved from traditional class room, face-to face learning environments to more interactive and collaborative environments, due to a demand for online-distance learning from students, and the desire from academic institutes to promote and deliver courses across the globe. Advancement in open source virtual learning platfor...

This research focuses on proposing an optimal trajectory planning and control method of two link rigid-flexible manipulators (TLRFM) for Dynamic Object Manipulation (DOM) missions. For the first time, achievement of DOM task using a rotating one flexible link robot was taken into account in [20]. The authors do not aim to contribute on either trajectory tracking or vibration control of the End-...

In this study, the problem of navigation in dynamic and unknown environment is investigated and a navigation method based on force field approach is suggested. It is assumed that the robot performs navigation in...