The book is divided into 9 chapters each addressing a particular aspect of the long case examination. The ‘History Taking’ section is comprehensive, outlining a recommended format, along with useful screening questions to rule out other psychopathologies. However, the mental state examination is sparsely covered and would not equip the reader with the necessary phenomenological terms. Likewise,...

We describe the design and partial implementation of a real time architecture for a mobile robot, aimed particularly towards a vehicle developed for factory automation.. We develop a layered design to equip the robot with a number of behavioural competences. We examine sensing and a potential field algorithm especially to achieve modification of behaviour a t a speed close to the robot’s operat...

This paper presents a project-based laboratory for seniorlevel students in computer engineering that is based on the LEGO Mindstorms kits extended with a set of off-the-shelf microcontrollers and custom electronics. It is organized in an integrated set of projects, which individually cover a subset of typical issues and challenges involved in the development of a complete robotic system. The pe...

Technical capabilities for improved surveillance over the oceans are currently available through the use of satellites. However, all aircraft operators will not equip simultaneously because of the high costs required. Consequently, as these CNS systems are integrated into oceanic air transportation architecture, the controller will have to manage the current low frequency surveillance in parall...

In this report, we will study online learning algorithms, and in particular, online mirror descent (OMD) method when applied to the collaborative filtering problem. This is motivated by the problem of real-world large-scale recommendation systems, where the goal is to make relevant recommendations to the users based on their demographic information, their past behavior, and the other users’ bah...

When conveying information about spatial situations and goals, speakers adapt flexibly to their addressee. Our aim is to equip our dialogue system with the communicative abilities required for such a natural, adaptive dialogue. In this paper we investigate how humans react to other humans and to a dialogue system when giving route descriptions with a map. We focus on two aspects of spatial lang...

This paper reviews the present methods of distributing standard frequency and time signals (SFTS), which include the use of high-frequency, low-frequency, and very-low-frequency radio signals, portable clocks, satellites, and RF cables and Lines. The range of accuracies attained with most of these systems is included along with an indication of the sources of error. Information is also included...

In modelling real-world knowledge, there often arises a need to represent and reason with meta-knowledge. To equip description logics (DLs) for dealing with such ontologies, we enrich DL concepts and roles with finite sets of attribute– value pairs, called annotations, and allow concept inclusions to express constraints on annotations. We show that this may lead to increased complexity or even ...

Elderly and disabled people can experience considerable difficulties when driving an electric wheelchair, especially if they do not possess the fine steering capacities that are required to perform ‘common’ manoeuvres, like avoiding obstacles, docking at tables, driving through doors, etc. This paper describes a possible approach to equip the wheelchair with an intelligent controller that perfo...

The situation on the interoperability of Natural Language Processing software is outlined through a use-case on Quality Estimation of Machine Translation output. The focus is on the development efforts for the QUALITATIVE tool, so that it integrates a multitude of state-of-the-art external tools into one single Python program, through an interoperable framework. The presentation includes 9 appr...