Motion planning under uncertainty that can efficiently take into account changes in the environment is critical for robots to operate reliably in our living spaces. Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) provides a systematic and general framework for motion planning under uncertainty. Point-based POMDP has advanced POMDP planning tremendously over the past few years, enabling POM...

The chemical policies of the 1970s were limited by the assumptions that lie at their foundation and focused narrowly on only the most hazardous chemicals. The effective management of chemicals requires policies that focus on the entire body of chemicals and the production systems that make them. The future will require comprehensive chemicals policies that work within a systems framework to pha...

Dear Editor, With great interest I read the article by Lehmann and Haux [1] in Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM) and the companion article, published in parallel, by Haux and Lehmann [2] in Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI). The authors, who are the respective editors-in-chief of MIM and ACI, evaluate whether the objective to “bridge the divide between ‘bench research’ and applying what...

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, many countries are hoping that massive increases in their money supplies will revive their economies. Evaluating the effectiveness of this strategy using traditional statistical methods would require the construction of an extremely complex economic model of the world that showed how each country’s situation affected all other countries. No matter how c...

The purpose of this article is to examine Greece’s policies related Egypt and Israel in the context regional developments. issue not limited those two countries only. In addition, Athens’ historical perspective on Turkey also included analysis order ensure integrity issue. factors determining foreign policy Greek governments towards are elements continuity rupture that examined throughout artic...