1. Common and shared responsibility is a principle of international law and is applied in many fields of cooperation. It is thus not specific to drug control. Whereas international treaties establish a set of rules creating individual obligations for States parties, the principle of common and shared responsibility goes much further. It provides the framework for a cooperative partnership among...

This paper argues for an alternative way of designing coordination models for parallel and distributed environments based on a complete symmetry between and decoupling of producers and consumers, as well as a clear distinction between the computational and the coordination/communication work performed by each process. The novel idea is to allow both producer and consumer processes to communicat...

Collaboration often relies on all group members having a shared view of a single-user application. A common situation is a single active presenter sharing a live view of her workstation screen with a passive audience, using simple hardware-based video signal projection onto a large screen or simple bitmap-based sharing protocols. This offers simplicity and some advantages over more sophisticate...

Visualizations often rely on either animated guided tours or user-self exploration to control the viewpoint. This paper introduces a framework that supports a six level continuum of control between the viewer and the computer system in order to facilitate the extraction of information from the display. Furthermore, by dynamically adjusting the control along this continuum, the system can adapt ...

In shared control teleoperation, the robot assists the user in accomplishing the desired task, making teleoperation easier and more seamless. Rather than simply executing the user’s input, which is hindered by the inadequacies of the interface, the robot attempts to predict the user’s intent, and assists in accomplishing it. In this work, we are interested in the scientific underpinnings of ass...

This paper presents preliminary work on the design of control systems for pedestrian mobility aids for the elderly. The elderly are often restricted in their mobility and must rely on canes, walkers and wheelchairs for locomotion. Restrictions in mobility lead to a loss of independence and autonomy, as well as a decrease in muscular strength. This paper focuses on design of intelligent wheeled ...

Remote experiments can be shared and exchanged among educational institutions in the form of reusable learning objects. The paper discusses different solutions for authentication and authorization needs when “Lab Learning Objects” are used through the Learning Management System of an institution to run a remote experiment based on physical resources (rigs) provided by an external experiment pro...

There are great challenges in the driving of human–machine shared control vehicles (HSCVs) uncertain environments. Aiming at solving collision avoidance problem HSCV considering uncertainty surrounding (SVs), a cooperative method for based on stochastic non-cooperative game (SNCG) is proposed. This realizes safe combined with prediction environment and constructs interaction model between drive...