It is a great privilege to have been invited to be a discussant at this prestigious Conference. The last RBA Conference I attended was in 2003 when the topic was ‘Asset Prices and Monetary Policy’. Many of the conclusions from that Conference around the potential impact of asset prices on economies were quite prophetic given the subsequent events in the global economy. For me, this Conference t...

Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) require autonomous software with a high level of liberalization and automation to complete various missions. Therefore, experimental verification validation this at the initial design stage are essential. However, such experiments impossible before actual hardware is developed, creation an external environment for mission requires substantial cost time. In study...

Because of diversity, complexity and poor information about non-layered orebody, it is difficult to be accurately described by regular geometry model. Mining engineers couldn’t accurately estimate the space distribution law of orebody's grade, quality and the total reserve according to the traditional 2-dementional (2D)graphics. So it is necessary to accurately establish non-layered orebody mod...

We have assembled a system using a personal computer workstation equipped with standard office software, an audio system, speech recognition software and an inexpensive radio-based wireless microphone that permits laboratory workers to enter or modify data while performing other work. Speech recognition permits users to enter data while their hands are holding equipment or they are otherwise un...

1 In this paper we present a multilingual application for speech technology. The SpeeData project aims at building a demonstrator that provides a user-friendly interface for spoken data-entry in two languages: Italian and German. The application domain is the land register of an Italian region in which both languages are o cially spoken. The considered data-entry task is particularly challengin...