Cascade control configurations offer interesting possibilities to improve the control of processes. However, the tuning of cascade controllers can be quite complex, which hampers a wider spread of applications. Using an on-line pattern recognition approach and fuzzy inferencing it is possible to...

The ancient game of ṭāb is a war and race game. It is played by two teams, each consisting of at least one player. In addition to presenting the game and its rules, the authors develop three versions of the game: human versus human, human versus computer, and computer versus computer. The...

In many applications of graphical models arising in computer vision, the hidden variables of interest are most naturally specified by continuous, non-Gaussian distributions. There exist inference algorithms for discrete approximations to these continuous distributions, but for the...

This paper investigates how people return to information in a dynamic information environment. For example, a person might want to return to Web content via a link encountered earlier on a Web page, only to learn that the link has since been removed. Changes can benefit users by providing new...

This thesis describes and evaluates a market-making algorithm for setting prices in financial markets with asymmetric information, and analyzes the properties of artificial markets in which the algorithm is used. The core of our algorithm is a technique for maintaining an online probability...

This paper investigates how people return to information in a dynamic information environment. For example, a person might want to return to Web content via a link encountered earlier on a Web page, only to learn that the link has since been removed. Changes can benefit users by providing new...

Extracting the principles associated with complexity theory and swarm intelligence has offered practical solutions for routing and scheduling. Reality mining and its link with social networking relationships may yield pragmatic ideas applicable to many fields including business services and...

The dream of pervasive computing is slowly becoming a reality. A number of projects around the world are constantly contributing ideas and solutions that are bound to change the way we interact with our environments and with one another. An essential component of the future is a software...

Bei der vorliegenden Studie handelt es sich um eine Folgebefragung, die nach 2016 zum zweiten Mal den Digitalisierungsgrad von Unternehmen im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe untersucht. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Bedeutung der Digitalisierung in den letzten fünf Jahren deutlich zugenommen hat....

This paper studies the power of online search intensity metrics, measured by Google, for examining and forecasting exchange rates. We use panel data consisting of quarterly time series from 2004 to 2018 and ten international countries with the highest currency trading volume. Newly, we include...