: We consider a set of programs a family when it pays to look at their common aspects before looking at their differences. For commercial software developers the implications are t...
In designing autonomous agents that deal competently with issues involving time and space, there is a tradeoff to be made between guaranteed response-time reactions on the one han...
This paper presents a systems analysis perspective that extends the traditional process design framework to green process design, green energy and industrial ecology leading to su...
■ People often make shortsighted decisions to receive small benefits in the present rather than large benefits in the future, that is, to favor their current selves over their f...
Jason P. Mitchell, Jessica Schirmer, Daniel L. Ame...
The high-level decision making process of an autonomous robot can be seen as an hierarchically organised entity, where strategical decisions are made on the topmost layer, while th...