To achieve sophisticated missions an autonomous UAV operating in a complex and dynamic environments must create and maintain situational awareness. It is achieved by continually gathering information from many sources, selecting the relevant information for the current task, and deriving models about the environment and the UAV itself. Often models close to the sensor data, suitable for traditi...

The fragile X mental retardation 1 mutant mouse (Fmr1 KO) recapitulates several of the neurologic deficits associated with Fragile X syndrome (FXS). As tactile hypersensitivity is a hallmark of FXS, we examined the sensory representation of individual whiskers in somatosensory barrel cortex of Fmr1 KO and wild-type (WT) mice and compared their performance in a whisker-dependent learning paradig...

Following established naval procedure, expert electronics technicians remotely support non-expert sailors via telephone, email, and chat referring to paper-based manuals as a common reference. Initially, experts have little contextual information about the problem and so must construct sufficient understanding through exchanges with the ship before offering help. To streamline and improve this ...

In this article, we address the rarely discussed problem of connecting high-level information (e.g., aggregated states and enemy intentions) to information acquisition. Our approach is to partition the transition of information need to sensor management into a set of comprehensible entities (information types and functions), which we present in a framework. The framework is stepwise (sequential...

Global ranking, a new information retrieval (IR) technology, uses a ranking model for cases in which there exist relationships between the objects to be ranked. In the ranking task, the ranking model is defined as a function of the properties of the objects as well as the relations between the objects. Existing global ranking approaches address the problem by “learning to rank”. In this paper, ...

In Design and Manufacturing processes, the role of the underlying information is of the utmost importance. If information is managed in a formal, structured way, it can serve as a basis for the control of processes. Based on a reference model and three information structures, the entire product creation process can be formulated in terms of the information requirements of distinct processes. Th...