The exploration community, from the earth scientist to the investment manager, has surely recognized the recent surge of interest in the use of controlled source electromagnetics for offshore hydrocarbon detection and assessment. The targets, petroleum, natural gas and gas hydrate, are resistive zones in an otherwise conductive background. I trace the academic and commercial development of mari...

Single auction-based methods are known to be efficient for multi-robot problem solving. In this work, we investigate performance of our general multi robot coordination framework for multi robot multi target exploration problem under uncertainties in dynamic environments. Our framework offers a real time single item allocation method featuring different mechanisms for failure recovery. In multi...

Understanding human behavior in the context of exploration and navigation is an important but challenging problem. Such understanding can help in the design of safe structures and spaces that implicitly aid humans during evacuation or other emergency situations. In particular, the role that memory plays in this process is something that is crucial to understand. In this paper, we develop a nove...

how to instill compassion in a healthcare organization? in this article, i respond to marianna fotaki’s proposals in her piece, ‘why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare?’ by drawing on insights from organization studies. following fotaki, i argue that to instill targets and formal measures for assessing compassion would be problematic. i conclude by drawing on psy...

In this article, we describe and validate the first fully automatic parameter optimization for thermal synthetic aperture visualization. It replaces previous manual exploration of space, which is time consuming error prone. We prove that visibility targets in integral images proportional to variance targets' image. Since invariant occlusion it represents a suitable objective function optimizati...