Substantial work has been published in visual servoing over the years, yet we have seen few real world applications. We discuss four different milestones (human robot interaction (HRI), tracking, multi-view geometry and visual servoing) needed to bring visual servoing into an unstructured human environment. We focus our efforts on HRI and tracking which we think are the link to bring visual ser...

This tutorial will focus on several new real-world applications that have been developed using an integrated set of methods, including Tabu Search, Scatter Search, Mixed Integer Programming, and Neural Networks, combined with simulation. Applications include project portfolio optimization and customer relationship management.

Neural Network technology performs “intelligent” tasks similar to those performed by the human brain. Today, many researchers are investigating Neural Networks, the network holds great potential as the front – end of expert system that require massive amount of inputs from sensor as well as real – time response. Neural Networks has been successfully applied to broad spectrum of data – intensive...

Systems Toxicology aims to change the basis of how adverse biological effects of xenobiotics are characterized from empirical end points to describing modes of action as adverse outcome pathways and perturbed networks. Toward this aim, Systems Toxicology entails the integration of in vitro and in vivo toxicity data with computational modeling. This evolving approach depends critically on data r...

The environment in which the vehicle must move is often very complex. Furthermore, the vehicle itself may be a complex structure or possess a large degree of exibility. To simplify the detection of collisions, the real-world space is mapped to con guration space. Each dimension in this corresponds to one of the vehicle's degrees of freedom (eg. two spatial and one rotational). In con guration s...

An ontology-driven approach to data integration relies on the alignment of the concepts of a global ontology that describe the domain, with the concepts of the ontologies that describe the data in the local databases. Once the alignment between the global ontology and each of the local ontologies is established, users can potentially query hundreds of databases using a single query that hides t...