Reid Simmons – författare

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2012, held in Chengdu, China, in October 2012. The 66 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots, situated interaction and embodiment, robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities, social acceptance of robots and their impact to the society, artificial empathy, HRI through non-verbal communication and control, social telepresence robots, embodiments and networks, interaction and collaboration among robots, humans and environment, human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots I and II.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2012, held in Chengdu, China, in October 2012. The 66 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots, situated interaction and embodiment, robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities, social acceptance of robots and their impact to the society, artificial empathy, HRI through non-verbal communication and control, social telepresence robots, embodiments and networks, interaction and collaboration among robots, humans and environment, human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots I and II.

Second Generation Expert Systems have been a very activefield of research during the last years. Much work has beencarried out to overcome drawbacks of first generation expertsystems. This book presents an overview and newcontributions from people who have played a major role inthis evolution. It is divided in several sections that coverthe main topics of the subject:- Combining Multiple Reasoning Paradigms- Knowledge Level Modelling- Knowledge Acquisition in Second Generation Expert Systems- Explanation of Reasoning- Architectures for Second Generation Expert Systems.This book can serve as a reference book for researchers andstudents and will also be an invaluable help forpractitioners involved in KBS developments.