‘O. what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theatre of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom w...

Empirical work by the IMP Group suggests that actor bonds are formed by trust and identity, yet no theoretical grounds have been offered for these conclusions. This paper proposes a specific definition of actor and actor bonds within contexts defined by time variance with regard to the object of interaction and the commanding capability of the actor. This perspective allows psychological and so...

Agricultural and rural informatization is the strategic commanding heights of agricultural modernization, improvement farmers' digital literacy core task construction. In age, development platform economy has given Internet enterprises a new connotation social responsibility to improve literacy. By strengthening governance enhance willingness use digital, promoting science technology for good s...

Heritage space telescope mirror technology—i.e. large, monolithic glass primary mirrors—has reached an upper limit on allowable aperture diameter given launch vehicle volume and mass constraints. The next generation of space telescopes will feature lightweight, actively controlled, segmented primary mirrors in order to achieve the advances in angular resolution and sensitivity that larger apert...

This work-in-progress paper reports on our efforts to improve different aspects of coordination in complex, component-based robotic systems. Coordination is a system level aspect concerned with commanding, configuring and monitoring functional computations such that the system as a whole behaves as desired. To that end a variety of models such as Petri-nets or Finite State Machines may be utili...

The present paper discusses two interesting phenomena concerning phifeatures on plural pronouns: (i) plural pronouns that denote atomic individuals (‘dependent plural pronouns’), and (ii) plural pronouns with more than one binder (‘partial binding’). A novel account of these two phenomena is proposed, according towhich all occurrences of phi-features are both semantically and morphologically re...

The commanding and supervision of complex automation systems for space as well as for terrestrial automation applications is a demanding task. Modern developments in the field of virtual reality (VR) based man machine interfaces have the potential to facilitate such tasks enormously. At the Institute of Robotics Research (IRF) in Dortmund, Germany a variety of practical applications regarding t...