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Event exploration is the process of exploring a topologically known environment to gather information about dynamic events in this environment. Using multi-robot systems for event exploration brings major challenges such as finding and communicating relevant information. This paper presents a solution to these challenges in the form of a distributed decision-theoretic model called MAPING (Multi-Agent Planning for INformation Gathering), in which each agent computes a communication and an exploration strategy by assessing the relevance of an observation for another agent. The agents use an extended belief state that contains not only their own beliefs but also approximations of other agents' beliefs. MAPING includes a forgetting mechanism to ensure that the event-exploration remains open-ended. To overcome the resolution complexity due to the extended belief state we use a method based on the well-known adopted assumption of variables independence. We evaluate our approach on different event exploration problems with varying complexity. The experimental results on simulation show the effectiveness of MAPING, its ability to scale up and its ability to face real-word applications.
Multirobot systems have made tremendous progress in exploration and surveillance. In that kind of problem, agents are not required to perform a given task but should gather as much information as possible. However, information gathering tasks usually remain passive. In this paper, we present a multirobot model for active information gathering. In this model, robots explore, assess the relevance, update their beliefs and communicate the appropriate information to relevant robots. To do so, we propose a distributed decision process where a robot maintains a belief matrix representing its beliefs and beliefs about the beliefs of the other robots. This decision process uses entropy and Kullback-Leibler in a reward function to access the relevance of their beliefs and the divergence with each other. This model allows the derivation of a policy for gathering information to make the entropy low and a communication policy to reduce the divergence. An experimental scenario has been developed for an indoor information gathering mission.
Mobile robots are of great help for automatic monitoring tasks in different environments. One of the first tasks that needs to be addressed when creating these kinds of robotic systems is modeling the robot environment. This work proposes a pipeline to build an enhanced visual model of a robot environment indoors. Vision based recognition approaches frequently use quantized feature spaces, commonly known as Bag of Words (BoW) or vocabulary representations. A drawback using standard BoW approaches is that semantic information is not considered as a criteria to create the visual words. To solve this challenging task, this paper studies how to leverage the standard vocabulary construction process to obtain a more meaningful visual vocabulary of the robot work environment using image sequences. We take advantage of spatio-temporal constraints and prior knowledge about the position of the camera. The key contribution of our work is the definition of a new pipeline to create a model of the environment. This pipeline incorporates (1) tracking information to the process of vocabulary construction and (2) geometric cues to the appearance descriptors. Motivated by long term robotic applications, such as the aforementioned monitoring tasks, we focus on a configuration where the robot camera points to the ceiling, which captures more stable regions of the environment. The experimental validation shows how our vocabulary models the environment in more detail than standard vocabulary approaches, without loss of recognition performance. We show different robotic tasks that could benefit of the use of our visual vocabulary approach, such as place recognition or object discovery. For this validation, we use our publicly available data-set.
The surveillance of large sea areas typically involves the analysis of huge quantities of heterogeneous data. In order to support the operator while monitoring maritime traffic, the identification of anomalous behavior or situations that might need further investigation may reduce operators' cognitive load. While it is worth acknowledging that existing mining applications support the identification of anomalies, autonomous anomaly detection systems are rarely used for maritime surveillance. Anomaly detection is normally a complex task that can hardly be solved by using purely visual or purely computational methods. This thesis suggests and investigates the adoption of visual analytics principles to support the detection of anomalous vessel behavior in maritime traffic data. This adoption involves studying the analytical reasoning process that needs to be supported, using combined automatic and visualization approaches to support such process, and evaluating such integration. The analysis of data gathered during interviews and participant observations at various maritime control centers and the inspection of video recordings of real anomalous incidents lead to a characterization of the analytical reasoning process that operators go through when monitoring traffic. These results are complemented with a literature review of anomaly detection techniques applied to sea traffic. A particular statistical-based technique is implemented, tested, and embedded in a proof-of-concept prototype that allows user involvement in the detection process. The quantitative evaluation carried out by employing the prototype reveals that participants who used the visualization of normal behavioral models outperformed the group without aid. The qualitative assessment shows that domain experts are positive towards providing automatic support and the visualization of normal behavioral models, since these aids may reduce reaction time, as well as increase trust and comprehensibility in the system. Based on the lessons learned, this thesis provides recommendations for designers and developers of maritime control and anomaly detection systems, as well as guidelines for carrying out evaluations of visual analytics environments.
Real-world robotic systems have to deal with uncertain and dynamic environments to reliably perform tasks. State-of-the-art cognitive robotic systems use an abstract symbolic representation of the real world that is used for high level reasoning. Some aspects of the world, such as object dynamics, are inherently difficult to capture in an abstract symbolic form, yet they influence whether the executed action will succeed or fail. This paper presents an integrated system that uses a physics-based simulation for predicting robot action results and durations, combined with a Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planner and semantic execution monitoring. We describe a fully integrated system performing functional imagination, which is essentially contributed by a Semantic Execution Monitor (SEM). Based on information obtained from functional imagination, the robot control decides whether it is necessary to adapt the plan that is currently being executed. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate PR2 able of carrying objects on a tray without the objects toppling. Our approach achieves this by considering the robot and object dynamics in simulation. A validation shows that robot action results in simulation can be transferred to the real world. The system improves on state-of-the-art AI plan-based systems by feeding simulated prediction results back into the execution system.
This report will cover the work process behind creating a spectrum analyzer. The reader will be able to read about the chosen method but also the alternative methods. Apart from this the theoretical parts behind every moment will also be covered and compared to potential alternative solutions.
The project has been carried out on behalf of KA Automation. The purpose of the project was to create a base for analyzing sound frequencies. The goal was to be able to identify sound properties in the form of frequencies in servo motors in for example water pumps. The idea was to be able to in a later development stage be able to identify when new frequencies have entered the audio profile which might result in the motor to be in need of service. The base is created with the help of C# and the sound library NAudio.
From the result one can conclude that this program can analyze sound and display the magnitude of its frequency components and is therefore a suitable base for future development.
Autonomous vehicles operating in real-world industrial environments have to overcome numerous challenges, chief among which is the creation and maintenance of consistent 3D world models. This paper proposes to address the challenges of online real-world mapping by building upon previous work on compact spatial representation and formulating a novel 3D mapping approach — the Normal Distributions Transform Occupancy Map (NDT-OM). The presented algorithm enables accurate real-time 3D mapping in large-scale dynamic nvironments employing a recursive update strategy. In addition, the proposed approach can seamlessly provide maps at multiple resolutions allowing for fast utilization in high-level functions such as localization or path planning. Compared to previous approaches that use the NDT representation, the proposed NDT-OM formulates an exact and efficient recursive update formulation and models the full occupancy of the map.
In order to enable long-term operation of autonomous vehicles in industrial environments numerous challenges need to be addressed. A basic requirement for many applications is the creation and maintenance of consistent 3D world models. This article proposes a novel 3D spatial representation for online real-world mapping, building upon two known representations: normal distributions transform (NDT) maps and occupancy grid maps. The proposed normal distributions transform occupancy map (NDT-OM) combines the advantages of both representations; compactness of NDT maps and robustness of occupancy maps. One key contribution in this article is that we formulate an exact recursive updates for NDT-OMs. We show that the recursive update equations provide natural support for multi-resolution maps. Next, we describe a modification of the recursive update equations that allows adaptation in dynamic environments. As a second key contribution we introduce NDT-OMs and formulate the occupancy update equations that allow to build consistent maps in dynamic environments. The update of the occupancy values are based on an efficient probabilistic sensor model that is specially formulated for NDT-OMs. In several experiments with a total of 17 hours of data from a milk factory we demonstrate that NDT-OMs enable real-time performance in large-scale, long-term industrial setups.
The development of techniques for autonomous navigation constitutes one of the major trends in the current research on mobile robotics. In this case study, we discuss how fuzzy computation techniques have be used in the SRI International mobile robot Flakey to address some of the difficult issues posed by autonomous navigation: (i) how to design basic behaviors; (ii) how to coordinate behaviors to execute full navigation plans; and (iii) how to use approximate map information. Our techniques have been validated in both in-house experiments and public events. The use of fuzzy logic has resulted in smooth motion control, robust performance in face of errors in the prior knowledge and in the sensor data, and principled integration between different layers of control
Autonomous robots need the ability to move purposefully and without human intervention in real-world environments that have not been specifically engineered for them. These environments are characterized by the pervasive presence of uncertainty: the need to cope with this uncertainty constitutes a major challenge for autonomous robots. In this note, we discuss this challenge, and present some specific solutions based on our experience on the use of fuzzy logic in mobile robots. We focus on three issues: how to realize robust motion control; how to flexibly execute navigation plans; and how to approximately estimate the robot's location.
The concept of Ecology of Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems, or PEIS-Ecology, combines insights from the fields of ubiquitous robotics and ambient intelligence to provide a new solution to building intelligent robots in the service of people. In this note I introduce this concept, summarize its main technological aspects, and speculate on its potential impact for space exploration.
The concept of Ecology of Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems, or PFIS-Ecology, combines insights from the fields of autonomous robotics and ambient intelligence to provide a new solution to building intelligent robotic systems in the service of people. The concept of PEIS-Ecology also offers an interesting setting to study the applicability of Gibson's notion of affordances to an ecology of robots. In this paper we introduce this concept, and discuss its potential and implications both from an application point of view and from an ecological (Gibsonian) point of view. We also discuss some new scientific challenges introduced by a PEIS-Ecology, present our current steps toward its realization, and point at a few experimental results that show the viability of this concept.
The concept of Ecology of Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems, or PEIS-Ecology, combines insights fromthe fields of autonomous robotics and ambient intelligence to provide a new solution to building intelligent robotic systems in the service of people. The concept of PEIS- Ecology also offers an interesting setting to study the applicability of Gibson's notion of affordances to an ecology of robots. In this paper we introduce this concept, and discuss its potential and implications both from an application point of view and from an ecological (Gibsonian) point of view. We also discuss some new scientific challenges introduced by a Peis- Ecology, present our current steps toward its realization, and point at a few experimental results that show the viability of this concept.
A common vision in the field of autonomous robotics is to create a skilled robot companion that is able to live in our homes and to perform physical tasks to help us in our everyday life. Another vision, coming from the field of ambient intelligence, is to create a network of intelligent devices that provides us with information, communication, and entertainment. We propose to combine these two visions into the new concept of an ecology of networked Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems (PEIS). In this paper, we define this concept, discuss ways to implement it, and illustrate it on a simple example involving some real robotic devices.
The vision of an Ecology of Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems, or PEIS-Ecology, combines insights from the fields of autonomous robotics and ambient intelligence to provide a new approach to building robotic systems in the service of people. In this paper, we present this vision, and we report the results of a four-year collaborative research project between Sweden and Korea aimed at the concrete realization of this vision. We focus in particular on three results: a robotic middleware able to cope with highly heterogeneous systems; a technique for autonomous self-configuration and re-configuration; and a study of the problem of sharing information of both physical and digital nature.
We describe our initial steps toward the realization of a robotic system for assisting fire-fighting and rescue services. The system implements the concept of shared autonomy between the robot and the human operator: the mobile robot performs local navigation, sensing and mapping, while the operator interprets the sensor data and provides strategic navigation goals.
Perceptual anchoring is the process of linking action to the appropriate objects in the environment via perception. The pivot of anchoring is the inclusion of micro-models of the world, or anchors, into a controller. In this paper, we propose to use anchors to focus the perceptual effort according to the current needs of the controller. We describe an active gaze control strategy able to maintain anchoring of several objects in a dynamic environment, and show how we have used it in a team of legged robots in the RoboCup'99 international robot soccer competition
Desirability functions are an effective way to define group and individual objectives of a team of cooperating mobile robots. By combining desirability functions, we can identify the individual actions that best satisfy both sets of objectives. Combination, however, is global, posing high demands in terms of communication and computation resources. In this paper, we investigate a technique to perform this combination using local computations. Simulated experiments suggest that, under conditions of spatial locality, team control by local computation achieves the same performance than using a global technique
The development of techniques for autonomous operation in real-world, unstructured environments constitutes one of the major trends in the current research on mobile robotics. In spite of recent advances, a number of fundamental difficulties remain. In this chapter, we discuss how fuzzy logic techniques can be used to address some of these difficulties. To illustrate the discussion, we describe the fuzzy-logic solutions developed on Flakey, the mobile robot of SRI International
An important reason for the popularity of the behavior-based paradigm in autonomous robotics is the possibility to design complex robot behaviors in an incremental way. We propose a fuzzy hierarchical behavior-based architecture, in which rules and meta-rules are used in a uniform way at all levels of the control hierarchy. This architecture has been successfully used in a number of robots performing autonomous navigation tasks. In this paper, we show the use of hierarchical fuzzy behaviors to implement a set of navigation and ball control behaviors for a Sony four-legged robot operating in the RoboCup domain. We also show that the logical structure of the rules and the hierarchical decomposition simplify the design of very complex behaviors, like the "GoalKeeper" behavior.
Desirability functions are an effective way to express and implement complex behavior coordination strategies inside a single robot. In this paper, we extend the desirability function approach to deal with behaviors of teams of robots. We show that desirability functions offer a convenient tool to incorporate and blend individual objectives and team objectives. We illustrate our approach on two significant problems of team coordination: reactive formation motion control, and collaborative searching and tracking.
The report is centered on the development of a game with the goal to participate in the national game development competition for students, Swedish Game Awards 2009. Some of the things discussed are the theory behind, as well as the design and implementation of a two dimensional platform game created with XNA. The report also comments on the pitfalls and difficulties we encountered during the process of development. The reader is expected to have basic understanding of expressions and some knowledge concerning object oriented programming. We have tried to limit the use of technical terms in order to reach a wider audience.
Smartphones have hit it big in the market recently and a need for websites to promote themselves on the market has also increased. The goal of this project is to enhance the dating site Norrlandskontakten.se's role on the market. This is done by developing an application for the iPhone.
This report describes the development of this application and the type of code design we chose to follow, in other words how the application is built and its functionality. Most of the work of developing this application has been about network communications and how this is linked to a web service. Given that this is an application based on the interaction between people with its primary goal to establish contact, it requires a lot of communication with the server.
It has been important for the navigation and the use of the application to keep high availability and that the user is not tied down during load times. And at the same time keeping down the amount of data downloaded from the server down to reduce the load on its bandwidth.
The project is made on behalf of the Company Sailsoft AB, which has developed Norrlandskontakten.se, the webpage this application is based on.
This project is about analyzing and optimizing Generic Mobile's messaging services with respect to performance (priority 1) and code efficiency (priority 2). The aim is to speed up the system so that a message will transit through as quickly as possible, while the load on software, hardware and database is minimal. To begin with, I will focus on optimizing the service "SMS via E-post" and then a more general approach to store-and-forward optimization will be discussed. Finally, an optimal method that works in similar systems is presented.
In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the new system, a couple of analytical methods and how to analyze the data dynamically will be discussed.
This article introduces the definition of Network Robot Systems (NRS) as is understood in Europe, USA and Japan. Moreover, it describes some of the NRS projects in Europe and Japan and presents a summary of the papers of this Special Issue.
In response to the changing nature of health issues, standardized health ontologies such as SNOMED CT and UMLS incline to change more frequently than most other domain ontologies. Yet, semantic interoperability shared among institutions within a distributed health care enterprise relies heavily on the availability of a valid and up-to-date standardized ontology. In this paper, we propose the creation and preservation of sub-ontologies to deal with the frequent changes in health ontologies. Our approach focuses on the nature and characteristics of standard health ontologies, however it can also be applied to other domain ontologies with similar characteristics. Our sub-ontology evolution approach defines ways to create valid sub-ontologies for each specific health application, and to effectively develop a series of propagation mechanism when the main ontology changes. Our approach will (i) isolate the required change propagation to the relevant health applications that utilized the changing concepts only, and (ii) optimize the propagation mechanism to include the minimum number of operations only. Since a sub-ontology should be a valid ontology by itself, the change propagation approach used in this process should contain the rules to assure the validity of the produced sub-ontology while keeping the consistency of the sub-ontology to the evolved base ontology. A change identification process, which considers the nature of the health ontology change logs, is conducted to identify the semantics of the changes. From the evaluation, it is shown that the content of the evolved sub-ontologies produced using our approach is consistent to the evolved base ontology. Moreover, the propagation process can be performed more efficiently because the number of operations required for our change propagation method is lower than the number of operations required for direct re-extraction from the evolved base ontology.
The global effort in the standardization of electronic health records has driven the need for a model to allow medical practitioners to interact with the newly standardized medical information system by focusing on the actual medical concepts/processes rather than the underlying data representations. An archetype has been introduced as a model that represents functional health concepts or processes such as admission record, which enables capturing all information relevant to the processes transparently to the users. However, it is necessary to ensure that the archetypes capture accurately all information relevant to the archetype concepts. Therefore, a semantic backbone is required for each of the archetype.
In this paper, we propose the development of an archetype sub-ontology for each archetype to represent the semantic content of the corresponding archetype. The sub-ontology is semi-automatically extracted from a standard health ontology, in this case SNOMED CT. Two steps performed to build an archetype sub-ontology are the annotation process and the extraction process, in which some rules have to be applied to maintain the validity of sub-ontology. The approach is evaluated by utilizing the archetype sub-ontologies produced in the development of a new archetype to ensure that only relevant archetypes can be linked to the archetype being developed, so that the only relevant data are captured using the particular archetype. It is shown that the method produces better results than the current approach in which an archetype sub-ontology is not used. We conclude that the archetype sub-ontology can represent well the semantic content of archetype.
Integrated care involves different professionals, belonging to different care provider organizations and requires immediate and ubiquitous access to patient-oriented information, supporting an integrated view on the care process [1].
To present a method for development of usable and work process-oriented information and communication technology (ICT) systems for integrated care.
Theory and method
Based on Human-computer Interaction Science and in particular Participatory Design [2], we present a new collaborative design method in the context of health information systems (HIS) development [3]. This method implies a thorough analysis of the entire interdisciplinary cooperative work and a transformation of the results into technical specifications, via user validated scenarios, prototypes and use cases, ultimately leading to the development of appropriate ICT for the variety of occurring work situations for different user groups, or professions, in integrated care.
Results and conclusions
Application of the method in homecare of the elderly resulted in an HIS that was well adapted to the intended user groups. Conducted in multi-disciplinary seminars, the method captured and validated user needs and system requirements for different professionals, work situations, and environments not only for current work; it also aimed to improve collaboration in future (ICT supported) work processes. A holistic view of the entire care process was obtained and supported through different views of the HIS for different user groups, resulting in improved work in the entire care process as well as for each collaborating profession.
A significant problem with current health information technologies is that they poorly support collaborative work of healthcare professionals, sometimes leading to a fragmentation of workflow and disruption of healthcare processes. Objective: This paper presents two homecare cases, both applying multi-disciplinary thematic seminars (MdTS) as a collaborative method for user needs elicitation and requirements specification. Methods: This study describes the MdTS application to elicit user needs from different perspectives to coincide with collaborative professions' work practices in two cases. Results: Despite different objectives, the two cases validated that MdTS emphasized the "points of intersection" in cooperative work. Different user groups with similar, yet distinct needs reached a common understanding of the entire work process, agreed upon requirements and participated in the design of prototypes supporting cooperative work. Conclusion: MdTS was applicable in both exploratory and normative studies aiming to elicit the specific requirements in a cooperative environment.
This paper presents a new multi-disciplinary method for user needs analysis and requirements specification in the context of health information systems based on established theories from the fields of participatory design and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). Whereas conventional methods imply a separate, sequential needs analysis for each profession, the "multi-disciplinary thematic seminar" (MdTS) method uses a collaborative design process. Application of the method in elderly homecare resulted in prototypes that were well adapted to the intended user groups. Vital information in the points of intersection between different care professions was elicited and a holistic view of the entire care process was obtained. Health informatics-usability specialists and clinical domain experts are necessary to apply the method. Although user needs acquisition can be time-consuming, MdTS was perceived to efficiently identify in-context user needs, and transformed these directly into requirements specifications. Consequently the method was perceived to expedite the entire ICT implementation process.
Using participatory design, we developed and deployed a mobile Virtual Health Record (VHR) on a personal digital assistant (PDA) together with experienced homecare staff. To assess transferability to a second setting and usability when used by novice users with limited system education the application was tested in a usability lab. Eight participants from another homecare district performed tasks related to daily homecare work using the VHR. Test protocols were analyzed with regard to effectiveness, potential usability problems and user satisfaction. Usability problems having impact on system performance and contextual factors affecting system transferability were uncovered. Questionnaires revealed that the participants frequently used computers, but never PDAs. Surprisingly there were only minor differences in input efficiency between novice and experienced users. The participants were overall satisfied with the application. However, transfer to another district can not be performed, unless by means of careful field observations of contextual differences.
Background: There is an increasing social isolation among the elderly today. This will be an even larger issue in the future with growing numbers of elderly and less resources, for example, in terms of economy and staff. Loneliness and social isolation can, however, be addressed in several ways using different interactive eHealth services.
Objective: This case study investigated novel eHealth services for the elderly, and their usage of a social interactive device designed especially for them.
Methods: In this work, we used an innovative mobile communication device connected to the television (TV), which worked as a remotely controlled large interactive screen. The device was tested by 8 volunteers who visited a senior center. They were between 65 and 80 years of age and lived in their own homes. Throughout the 1.5 year-long project, 7 design workshops were held with the seniors and the staff at the center. During these workshops, demands and preferences regarding existing and new services were gathered. At the end of the project the participants' experience of the device and of the services was elaborated in 3 workshops to get ideas for improved or new meaningful services. During the data analyses and development process, what seniors thought would be useful in relation to what was feasible was prioritized by the development company.
Results: Regarding daily usage, the seniors reported that they mainly used the service for receiving information from the senior center and for communication with other participants in the group or with younger relatives. They also read information about events at the senior center and they liked to perform a weekly sent out workout exercise. Further, they played games such as Memory and Sudoku using the device. The service development focused on three categories of services: cognitive activities, social activities, and physical activities. A cognitive activity service that would be meaningful to develop was a game for practicing working memory. In the social activities category, the seniors wanted different quizzes and multi-player games. For physical activities, the seniors desired more workout exercises and suggestions for guided walking routes. A new category, "information and news", was suggested since they lacked services like senior-customized global and local news.
Conclusions: This study showed the importance of input from a group of seniors when designing new services for elderly citizens. Besides input to interactive eHealth service development for seniors, this study showed the importance of a social context around such work. The seniors were very engaged throughout the project and workshops were frequently visited and the seniors became friends. The high amount of input from the seniors could be explained in terms of social inclusion; they belonged to a group and each member was considered important for the work. The friendly workshop atmosphere facilitated new ideas and redesign of the services.
This paper describes a system for the systematic construction and evaluation of planning strategies. It is based on a proper formal account of refinement planning and allows us to decouple plan-deficiency detection, refinement computation, and search control. In adopting this methodology, planning strategies can be explicitly described and easily deployed in various system configurations.
We introduce novel domain-independent planning strategies that are applicable to a wide range of planning capabilities and methods. These so-called HotSpot strategies are guided by information about current plan defects and solution options. The results of a first empirical performance evaluation are presented in the context of hybrid planning.
Hybrid planning provides a powerful mechanism to solve real-world planning problems. We present a domain-independent, mixed-initiative approach to plan generation that is based on a formal concept of hybrid planning. It allows any interaction modalities and models of initiative while preserving the soundness of the planning process. Adequately involving the decision competences of end-users in this way will improve the application potential as well as the acceptance of the technology.
Strong passwords have been preached since decades. However, lot of the regular users of IT systems resort to simple and repetitive passwords, especially nowadays in the "service era". To help alleviate this problem, a new class of software grew popular: password managers. Since their introduction, password managers have slowly been migrating into the cloud. In this paper we review and analyze current professional password managers in the cloud. We discuss several functional and nonfunctional requirements to evaluate existing solutions and we sum up their strengths and weaknesses. The main conclusion is that a silver bullet solution is not available yet and that this type of tools still deserve a significant research effort from the privacy and security community.
We present a novel numerical optimisation based characterisation of spatial reasoning in the context of constraint logic programming (CLP). The approach —formalised and implemented within CLP— is developed as an extension to CLP(QS), a declarative spatial reasoning framework providing a range of mixed quantitative-qualitative spatial representation and reasoning capabilities. We demonstrate the manner in which the numerical optimisation based extensions further enhance the declarative spatial reasoning capabilities of CLP(QS).
We present a robust and scalable KR-centered foundation for modularly supporting general declarative spatial representation and reasoning within diverse declarative programming AI frameworks. Based on Constructive Geometric Constraint Solving, our approach provides the foundations for mixed qualitative-quantitative reasoning about space - mereotopology, relative orientation, size, proximity - encompassing key application-driven capabilities such as qualification, spatial consistency solving, quantification, and dynamic geometry. The paper also demonstrates: (a) the framework with benchmark problems (e.g., contact and orientation problems) and applications in spatial Q/A; (b) integration with constraint logic programming, and (c) empirical results illustrating how the proposed encodings outperform existing methods by orders of magnitude on the selected problems.
We present a concept for integrating state-of-the-art methods in geometric and qualitative spatial representation and reasoning with feature-based parametric modelling systems. Using a case-study involving a combination of topological, visibility, and movement constraints, we demonstrate the manner in which a parametric model may be constrained by the spatial aspects of conceptual design specifications and higher-level semantic design requirements. We demonstrate the proposed methodology by applying it to architectural floor plan layout design, where a number of spaces with well defined functionalities have to be arranged such that particular functional design constraints are maintained. The case-study is developed by an integration of the declarative spatial reasoning system CLP(QS) (CLP(QS) - a declarative spatial reasoning system. www.spatial-reasoning.com.) with the parametric CAD system FreeCAD.
In this paper we present a novel framework and full implementation of probabilistic spatial reasoning within a Logic Programming context. The crux of our approach is extending Probabilistic Logic Programming (based on distribution semantics) to support reasoning over spatial variables via Constraint Logic Programming. Spatial reasoning is formulated as a numerical optimisation problem, and we implement our approach within ProbLog 1. We demonstrate a range of powerful features beyond what is currently provided by existing probabilistic and spatial reasoning tools.
Spatial assistance systems are computational embodiments of spatial decision-making and other forms of analytical abilities that otherwise typically require extensive domain-specific training, knowledge, and expertise. Broadly, such systems are essentially instruments of assistance, assurance and empowerment. Whereas these systems may vary in the domain of application and the precise manner of intelligent assistance, there exist several fundamental similarities from a systemic and information-theoretic viewpoint with regard to the ontological and computational foundations that underlie their practical design and implementation.
We present a multi-modal spatial data access framework designed to serve the informational and computational requirements of the class of spatial assistance systems that are intended to provide intelligent spatial decision-making capabilities. The framework focuses on multi-perspective semantics, qualitative and artefactual abstractions, and industrial conformance and interoperability. We position the framework, and also provide use-cases with distinct application domains.


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A collection of photos to share with family, friends and others who are interested in my work. Instead of attaching photos to emails I have decided to place them on a blog so people can see them. I hope to post daily, or near daily. I won't promise perfection. I will show my failures as well as successes. Please enjoy and please comment. Negative and positive. Don't like a photo? Say so. Each photo is a learning opportunity and honest comments are welcome.
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"Something was created from nothing"
RE: "Something was created from nothing"
(31-07-2014 11:23 AM)Michael_Tadlock Wrote:(31-07-2014 11:15 AM)TwoCultSurvivor Wrote: Mass-energy cannot be created or destroyed. There is no evidence that the universe was ever in a state of "nothing" [ie, no mass energy]. The Big Bang marks the start of our universe, and of time. We start with something -- mass-energy. There is never a "time" that mass-energy did not exist. Before we start asking questions about how something came from "nothing," it is incumbent on us to prove that "nothing" was the state of the universe prior to the presence of "something." Scientifically, there is no such proof (nor could there be). Even as you listen to Krauss in the video above, you see that he describes "nothing" in scientific terms rather than in philosophical terms. In scientific terms, "nothing" doesn't exist. [It's always something].
Not... as such. Or rather, light (which is to say, electromagnetism) is itself a sort of motion. Or rather, light is carried by photons, which are the mediating bosons (ie travelling excitations) of a certain universal quantum field. But motion too is just a way of quantifying causal interaction - that's what dimensions are, the separation between observable (distinct) events.
Indeed, there's no physically coherent definition of "nothing". Quantum field theories don't admit of such - you can't "get rid" of the field itself, and so long as the field exists, it will do stuff. An exchange of energy produces excitations, but there are probabilistic interactions which have zero net energy - virtual particles, or vacuum fluctuations.
As a comparison we might consider quasiparticles. At a finite scale all excitations can be conceived of as similar (discrete) quantum objects. If we consider a mesh of sites (in some substance), the quanta of displacement represent the propagating vibration, and this we call that propagation sound if it happens in a fluid. Similarly, in considering semiconductors, there is no difference mathematically between considering sparse electrons in an n-type layer or sparse holes (quasi-positrons) in a p-type layer. Although phonons are boson-like and holes are fermion-like. But still.
There are virtual-particle pair annihilations all the time in free space - that process is probabilistic and has zero net energy. Such pair interactions are the source of Hawking radiation - if they occur near an event horizon, only one path becomes free. But this requires an energy transfer (the black hole is influencing the paths) and that's why black holes lose mass-energy and have finite lifespans.
Now, where was I going with this? Right. All likely cosmological models posit a universe like ours existing as a fluctuation within some greater manifold (string theories are really keen on this), but as yet those are untestable predictions. What this means is that if the universe is an energy-neutral closed system, our understanding of causality (thus, time and entropy) is an artifact of our position within it. A zero-energy interaction is time-reversible by definition, and indeed running a virtual pair interaction "backwards" flips the particle to antiparticle and antiparticle to particle and nothing changes.
tl;dr - nothing doesn't exist and physics is cool.
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(31-07-2014 10:44 AM)smileXsmileXsmile Wrote: So I'm watching one of seth's videos, awesome as usual. (this one actually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUDPfknwq8U) Anyway, I think big bang, and I'm like wow! 'something from nothing' how incredible. To me this is the theists' best argument. Myself, I think, well, I don't really know how it happened, but just because it happened doesn't mean God. "Correlation doesn't mean causation"
No it's not elegant at all. Just presumptuous and erroneous application of what is sometimes observed inside this universe to a situation which is in no way similar.
It's also not an example of "correlation is not causation".
Insufferable know-it-all. It is objectively immoral to kill innocent babies. Please stick to the guilty babies.
RE: "Something was created from nothing"
I don't think the question of "why is there something rather than nothing" is a useful question. Philosophically it is an intuitive question to ask but scientifically it conflicts with known and proven quantum mechanics such as the uncertainty principle as well as conservation of energy.
I read a cosmology book "From eternity to here" that convinced me the question is more apt as
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Shouldn't the universe (given infinite time) reach an equilibrium state of de sitter space with maximum entropy?
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Is it possible to not have a de sitter space, hence is there a requirement for a first de sitter space, hence an infinite regression problem?
RE: "Something was created from nothing"
The universe exists and it's expanding
As we examine the expansion in reverse, we get to a point where all the mass in the universe converges down to something our current understanding of physics doesn't quite understand.
We have something that changed. And in time it will all change again. Our understanding of it will change just as our understanding of weather and storms changed from Thor, the god of Thunder, to meteorology.
The more you know, the less bullshit you have to make up in your head.
Insanity - doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
RE: "Something was created from nothing"
So mankind and the material universe can't be created out of nothing but God can always have been with no beginning......which one is more far fetched?
RE: "Something was created from nothing"
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"If you cannot explain it simply, you don't understand it enough" -Albert Einstein
RE: "Something was created from nothing"
(31-07-2014 10:52 AM)Michael_Tadlock Wrote:
Wow what a great video. I actually watched the whole thing. Thanks for that Michael_Tadlock. Something can in fact come from nothing. How amazing!
"If you cannot explain it simply, you don't understand it enough" -Albert Einstein
RE: "Something was created from nothing"
(31-07-2014 11:23 AM)Michael_Tadlock Wrote: If you are trying to prove that energy always existed then you have to define energy in a different way. All forms of energy basically measure two things; light and motion. You can't have either without space, and space certainly did not exist before the big bang. Correct me if I am wrong, I am not a physics major.I might be out of my league here, but I'm pretty sure the correct statement is space did not exist here before the big bang. We really don't know exactly what, if anything, existed before the big bang so it's certainly possible that space existed somewhere - just not in this universe because this universe didn't exist until the big bang.
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31-07-2014, 07:40 PM (This post was last modified: 01-08-2014 01:17 AM by smileXsmileXsmile.)
"Something was created from nothing"
Buckyball's response to my original post:
(31-07-2014 01:51 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote: No it's not elegant at all. Just presumptuous and erroneous application of what is sometimes observed inside this universe to a situation which is in no way similar.
I thought 'correlation does not imply causation' fits because you have variable one: the theory God created the universe and variable two: something came from nothing.....so just because something couldn't come from nothing (which i've learned is wrong) does not mean God created the universe. The two ideas are mutually exclusive. How is this not an example of "correlation does not imply causation"? I'm all ears. The two variables appear as if they could fit together but it doesn't necessarily mean they do.
"If you cannot explain it simply, you don't understand it enough" -Albert Einstein
RE: "Something was created from nothing"
(31-07-2014 10:44 AM)smileXsmileXsmile Wrote: So I'm watching one of seth's videos, awesome as usual. (this one actually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUDPfknwq8U) Anyway, I think big bang, and I'm like wow! 'something from nothing' how incredible. To me this is the theists' best argument. Myself, I think, well, I don't really know how it happened, but just because it happened doesn't mean God. "Correlation doesn't mean causation"
I would say that they need to go back and read the theory because they are misrepresenting it. The Big Bang Theory doesn't say the universe came from nothing. It says that it expanded from a much hotter and denser condition to what we see today. It really begins with that expansion and posits a "singularity" as the starting point, basically every bit of matter and energy and space time was contained in an infinitesimally small object.
Recently, loop quantum gravity theory posits something called a "plank star" instead of a singularity.
Some scientists speculate that the universe could have come about as a result of quantum fluctuations in space time but space time isn't nothing.
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You might be hooked up to a live feed to a dystopian planet of the Space Fairers.
So you're seeing what someone is living on another World!
It's funny you say that. I tend to believe dreams are completely meaningless. I have very vivid dreams and they seem to have nothing to do with me at all. I always joke to my wife that i'm having someone elses dreams. It's why i don't beleive dreams mean diddly squat. I don't know what Space Fairers are but, i don't beleive their are aliens here on earth either. Call me kooky I guess. But now, if i have a werid dream i can say, some guy on the internets said i could be a hooked up to a live feed of dystopian planet of the Space Fairers.
The only goal in our "life" is to successfully continue the very important work we are doing in the "dream world" which is actually the "real" world.
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Le tremblement si fort au mois de may,
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Venus aussi, Cancer, Mars, en Nonnay,
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The trembling so hard in the month of may,
Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus:
Venus also, Cancer, Mars, in Virgo,
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With the very first three points of interest, Saturn, Capricorn and Jupiter, Nostradamus describes exactly the position of Earth during May 2015.
originally posted by: snowen20
If it is any consolation, I have had Apocalyptic Dreams literally every night for the last year and a half.
I remember every dream I have and that's how I know.
Now I have come to expect it every time I sleep, and without fail it occurs.
Like you, at fist I was wondering what was going on, but I really don't know why. Maybe it is inner struggle or something, who knows.
Last night, it was a dead Ocean full mud and rusting ships and dark cold slate grey skies with lightning. The general feel was pretty bleak, and on land naked people skulking around. Naked because there are no clothes, it's that bad.
Every night it's something new. Who knows......
originally posted by: Neopan100
I had a dream last night that was also very vivid. It was snowing like a blizzard..only the snow was warm to the touch. It felt weird like styrofoam. I remember sitting on the steps of my old Jr High School and running my hands through it. It melted on hands but stayed warm..talk about a weird dream..
originally posted by: sirlancelot
So in the past 2 weeks I have been having very vivid apocalyptic dreams.
Here are some examples:
Had dream a huge fireball plowed through a huge skyscraper and then did a 45 degree turn and landing right next to me.
Had a dream I was being arrested by a military officer with no reason or laws being broken
Had a dreams I was running from police and I had no idea what I had done wrong.
I have read the humans and animals can sense in their subconscious bad events about to occur.
I google the dream websites so I know its probably internal conflict that is causing the dreams but what if there is more to it then that?
Has anyone else been having these sorts of dreams?
from wikipedia
An apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apocálypsis, from ἀπό and καλύπτω meaning "uncovering"), translated literally from Greek, is a disclosure of knowledge, i.e., a lifting of the veil or revelation.
In religious contexts it is usually a disclosure of something hidden.
.[1] Today, it is commonly used in reference to any prophetic revelation or so-called End Time scenario, or to the end of the world in general....
from: dictionary.reference.com...
1. of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.
3. predicting or presaging imminent disaster and total or universal destruction:


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Last year on New Year's Eve 2012 several friends ran a midnight 5K and it looked like fun. I put a reminder on my cell phone to this on New Year's Eve 2013. I like walking and do get out and walk but not as regular as I thought I would. Well a 5K is 3.1 miles and the Midnight Madness 5K was a timed event. I did no practice walking I just winged it. It was cold out and the race began at 10:30 pm. First of all, I wore too many layers and I was hot by the first mile and had to carry my jacket. Secondly, I took a string backpack with way too much shit in it, water bottle, gum, hat, gloves, snack bar, etc. Thirdly, we began in the very back of the pack. I walked with two people who walked a faster pace than me and that frustrated me big time. Being at the end of the pack frustrated me, okay the truth be known I was the last person in the race and the two people with me were kind enough to stay with me. I wonder if they felt sorry for me...who knows who cares. I finished last at 59 minutes. Now to put this into perspective the fastest runner finished in 15 minutes. I was pretty proud of myself having never done this before. I was sore, cold and overwhelmed at the end.
Well, staying on a treadmill takes some focus and motivation. My goal is one hour a day taking a day off here and there. I added a app to my phone so I can track my workouts. I love the ability to keep a log. I watch movies, HBO series, read, listen to Heart radio, or to my playlist...which by the way needs some better music.
I found I needed more to keep me on track. I found some quotes and taped them to the wall so I can read them. My favorite quote so far is "I don't stop when I'm tired, I stop when I'm done".
This quote is so important for me. I was having a bad day and was feeling so discouraged. You know that feeling you get when you step on the scale and don't see the results you were hoping for?
That was my day ... the scale was pissing me off!
But, as the quote says....
Last weekend I completed my second 5K walk event. It was for a good cause and I had a great time. The only goal I had was to keep my own pace and not let anyone else effect my stride! I finished and my time improved from the first 5K walk we did on New Year's Eve. I was not winded, not sore, not tired at the end of this event. Each time I slowed down I remember the woman the event was about. her name is Vandi Olson, she passed away way too young a year ago. I felt honored to walk in her memory. Overall, a great day.
Tom & I are signed up for another 5K event in March, the Neon Run. Should be fun and I'll keep you posted. Of course my biggest fear is quitting .... I'm hoping by posting my progress it will help me stay focused and motivated to keep walking.


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Very charming your urban paintings, Tadeusz. In my opinion, they have social and aesthetic relevance. Would be great to do an exhibition about this subjetc here in Florianópolis.
Thanks Luis, I think it would make for an interesting little show..but where? TD


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As we nod off again, give thanks to the Supreme Court for its 5-4 decision telling us not to bother with race when trying to create equality in education.
No, this inequality isn't about ``extreme'' issues like race. It's not about income either, since our cities are repositories of impoverished minorities.