This paper summarizes progress made by our robotic soccer team, Team Edinferno, towards our participation in the 2014 RoboCup Standard Platform League competition held in João Pessoa, Brazil. Our team made its RoboCup debut in the 2011 world cup held in Istanbul, Turkey, where we entered both in the Standard Platform League and the 2D Simulation League. In our debut at the SPL, where we entered...

The idea of bringing together the arts and sciences is not new. In almost every age, these two disciplines have had a difficult and fragile relationship. Where does this mutual fascination come from? What are the limits of this dialog? How can we avoid misunderstanding, and manage this encounter in a productive way? As an artist, I am often asked “Why do you need this?” Actually my answer is th...

This work describes an adaptive system that uses a counterpropagation artificial neural network in decision-making. The output layer of the network is trained by a specially designed one-step reinforcement learning algorithm. This approach allows creating an agent that can quickly adapt to the surrounding environment on the basis of the trial-and-error method which, in turn, enables one to use ...

In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature. The problem seems to be that Nabokov's works are not susceptible to the kind of varying interpretations favored by the Norton's editors, although in practice,...