This book investigates the problem of competently  accomplishing everyday manipulation activities for  autonomous robots as a plan-based control problem. We  propose TRANER (TRAnsformational PlanNER) as a plan  transformation system for the optimization of  everyday activities. TRANER advances the  state-of-the-art in three important ways. First, it  extends concurrent reactive plan representation to  support the specification of robust and transformable  plans. Second, it proposes a library of general and  flexible plans for a household robot. Third, it  provides a suite of general transformation rules that  are capable of improving the course of activities in  important and novel ways. Comprehensive and extensive  experiments in a realistic simulation environment  show that transformational planning enables robots to  substantially improve their performance by tailoring  their course of activity to their tasks,  environments, and capabilities.

TRANER - Transformational Planner: Transformational Planning for Autonomous Household Robots Using Libraries of Robust and Flexible Plans (German Edition)

Computers & Technology

Müller, Armin

Computer Science

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Social Learning of Food Odours in Honeybees: Mechanisms and Implications for Collective Foraging (German Edition)

Science & Math

Grüter, Christoph

Biological Sciences

Der Einfluss sozialer Faktoren auf den Umgang mit Medikamenten: Eine explorative Studie zum Medikamentenkonsum in der Gruppe allein lebender, mehrfach erkrankter, alter Frauen (German Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Ludwig, Anja

Social Sciences

Zur Rezeption der Modernen Algebra in Österreich: Abstrakte Algebra im österreichischen Wissenschaftssystem der 1930er Jahre (German Edition)

Hörlesberger, Marianne

Mathematics

To stay competitive, companies spend billions of dollars each year on building long-term relationships with their customers. Marketing managers are therefore constantly challenged with the problem of how to allocate a limited marketing budget across customers and competing marketing initiatives. This work addresses the problem of how to efficiently allocate marketing resources to maximize the financial value generated by marketing investments. Advanced stochastic models addressing the following three issues are proposed: a) maximization of customer lifetime value by linking marketing actions to the financial value generated during the relationship with the company, b) estimation of the financial profile of customers and, c) use of risk management techniques to select the optimal customer portfolio. This research has been done while the author was working at the Math & Computer Science Department of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland.

Allocation of Marketing Resources to Optimize Customer Equity: Managing Customers as Financial Assets

Business & Money

Tirenni, Giuliano

Marketing & Sales

Die Rückwirkung im Umgründungs-Steuer-Recht: Steuerliche und unternehmensrechtliche Konsequenzen rückbezogener Umgründungen (German Edition)

Andreaus, Lukas

Accounting

Versicherungsrechtliche Erfüllungshaftung und Schuldrecht: Die versicherungsrechtliche Erfüllungshaftung und das allgemeine Schuldrecht nach der Schuldrechtsmodernisierung (German Edition)

Pütz, Andrea

Administrative Law

Patient-Therapeut-Bindung bei Drogenabhängigen: Instrumentenvalidierung und Therapieevaluation (German Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hellwich, Ann Katrin

Psychology & Counseling

This book deals with the quantisation of topological quantum field theories in 1+1 space-time dimensions. These quantum ?eld theories are the Thirring model and the sine?Gordon model. The Thirring model is a fermionic quantum field theory, which is exactly solvable and hence an interesting laboratory to study quantum effects in a non-perturbative way. While it is well known that the massive Thirring model is renormalisable, the massless model was thought to be non-renormalisable. Here, a more general solution to the massless Thirring model is obtained, which allows to renormalise the massless Thirring model for the first time. The second part deals with the sine?Gordon model. This soliton model is exactly solvable and equivalent to the massive Thirring model. Using path integral techniques the quantum correction to the mass of a soliton is calculated in continuous space?time and within the discretisation technique with periodic and anti-periodic boundary conditions and rigid walls. Finally, it is shown that the ?nite contribution to the quantum mass of a soliton found in the literature arises due to a non?covariant procedure.

On the Quantisation of Topological Field Models: The Thirring Model and Sine-Gordon Model

Pitschmann, Mario

Physics

The inadequate integration of young people in formal  organisations is often bemoaned and connected with a  concern about the political engagement and  democratic participation of young people. Against  this background the study explores the meaning of  politics and political participation among young  Western Europeans, age and generation related  differences in participation, the connection between  social capital and political participation and the  development of both between 1980 and 2000. The study  reveals a sceptical view of politics among young  people, a shift in forms of political expression,  but no general, Europe-wide, trend towards apathy. 

Youth Participation: Social Capital and Political Engagement of Young People in Western Europe

Spannring, Reingard

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