The group began by reviewing the high-level objectives for ecosystem-based management in the eastern Bering Sea (and North Pacific) as defined by several management agencies for these regions, and summarized by Belgrano et al. (this report): • Protect ecosystem structure, functioning, and key processes (including diversity and habitats); • Account for food web interactions; • Manage regionally;...

This document presents my research accomplishments and objectives as of Spring 2002. The document references and lists most of my publications, so it also serves as an annotated list of publications. In addition, Section 8 discusses my teaching and describes a textbook that I have written. Most of my recent and current research focuses on discrete and computer-architecture-related issues in num...

My long-term research objectives are:-Haptic Landscapes for Virtual Environments (VE); Human-Machine Media-Human biomechanics and neural control of movements.-Biologically inspired control of humanoid robots.-Haptic Landscapes for Virtual Environments (VE); Human-Machine Media. You feel like going for a jog. However, the temperature outside is below freezing and you don't like running in extrem...

The overall objectives of the Long Term Research on Agricultural Systems project (LTRAS) are concisely stated on a sign marking the entrance to the site -"a facility to study sustainability of agricultural systems and their impact on the environment [emphases added]." Most of the current effort at LTRAS is on the first long-term experiment -a 100 year study of annual field crop systems. However...

1.1 Summary description of project objectives The aim of ATRACO project is to contribute to the realization of trusted ambient ecologies. Interactive appliances, collaborative devices, and context aware artefacts, as well as models, services, software components are parts of ambient ecologies. A context-aware artefact, appliance or device uses sensors to perceive its context of operation and ap...

Pseudo-likelihood and contrastive divergence are two well-known examples of contrastive methods. These algorithms trade off the probability of the correct label with the probabilities of other “nearby” instantiations. In this paper we explore more general types of contrastive objectives, which trade off the probability of the correct label against an arbitrary set of other instantiations. We pr...

In this article the author concentrates on what a leader need to believe and do in order to promote the high performance that will be required for organizational success in the 21st Century. His premise is that leader values are the guiding principles that determine leader behavior, which, in turn motivates and inspires follower behavior. The author describes twenty attitudes and associated beh...

The research work carried out within the OFT-project shall provide insights, methods, and prototypic software to support the design of hydraulic closed loop control systems. The paper in hand presents an overview of the research work, motivates the current objectives of the project, and provides useful background information. In particular we develop different views of the hydraulic design proc...