Process compliance deals with the ability of a company to ensure that its business processes comply with domain-specific regulations and rules. So far, compliance issues have been mainly addressed for intra-organizational business processes, whereas there exists only little work dealing with compliance in the context of cross-organizational processes that involve multiple business partners. As ...

The application of stable isotope analysis (SIA) has become a standard scientific approach in Agricultural and Ecological researches and, more in general, in several disciplines such as biology, botany, zoology, organic chemistry, climatology, and nutrition. The main objectives of this paper are (1) to provide a simple definition of stable isotopes and (2) to illustrate analytical measurement m...

A program of research in robotics that seeks to encode abstract tasks in a form that simultaneously affords a control scheme for the torque-actuated dynamical systems, as well as a proof that the resulting closed-loop behavior will correctly achieve the desired goals, is reviewed. Two different behaviors that require dexterity and might plausibly connote 'intelligence' navigating in a cluttered...

To provide services according to user behavior, parameters should be adapted appropriately for the precise recognition of user behavior. In particular, the threshold value which is used to create behavioral patterns matched for behavior recognition impacts accuracy of behavior recognition. Because the threshold value is common to all users in the conventional model, the threshold setting unsu...

As in human world many of our goals could not be achieved without interacting with other people, in case many agents are part of the same environment one agent should be aware that he is not alone and he cannot assume other agents sharing his own goals. Moreover, he may be required to interact with other agents and to reason about their mental state in order to find out potential friends to joi...