Background. One of the most difficult challenges for conservation biology is to reconcile growing human demands for resources with the rising need for protecting nature. Wind farms producing renewable energy have been recognised to be a threat for birds, but clear directives for environmental planning are still missing. Methods. Point counts were performed to study the relationship between eigh...

277 W OK, STRICTLY IT IS AN ANALOGY rather than a metaphor, but I couldn’t resist. In overview talks on the “SENS” repair-andmaintenance approach to combating aging that I favor, I generally introduce the basic concept by analogy with the fact that the functional lifespan of a car may be made unusually long by sufficiently comprehensive maintenance. I use this analogy to explain not only why a ...

Community action research among the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes of the Fort Belknap Indian reservation in Montana was undertaken to identify the cultural grounds for innovative mental health service delivery. As an enrolled tribal member investigating these matters in my "home" community, however, I encountered a series of challenges and limitations emerging from respondent reservations ...

In this talk I will discuss the role of common domains in the performance and evaluation of research in AI. Many of my examples will come from the search literature, where common domains include Chess, the Fifteen Puzzle, the N-Queens Problem, the Travelling Salesman Problem, and random boolean satisfiability problems. I will argue that the primary benefits of common domains are that they facil...

Swarm robotics is about constructing and controlling swarms of autonomous robots that cooperate to perform tasks that go beyond the capabilities of the single robots in the swarm. In this talk, I will give an overview of recent and ongoing research in swarm robotics in my research lab, IRIDIA, at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles. In particular, I will present results obtained with homogeneous a...