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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"information gathering"”.
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Decentralised coordination of information gathering agents
… Within this view, each sensor becomes an information gathering agent. As a team, these agents can then direct their collective activity towards collecting information from their environment with the aim of providing<br/>accurate and up-to-date situational awareness.<br/><br/>Against this …
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Decision uncertainty minimization and autonomous information gathering
… but continue to face limitations in the areas of information gathering and analysis. These limitations affect technologies that use autonomous agents, which are devices that can make routine decisions independent of operator instructions. Bandwidth and other communications limitation require that …
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Active Information Gathering Using Distributed Mobile Sensing Networks
… robot system requires robots to actively gather information using sensors in order to make control decisions. Some problems where autonomous robots are useful include mapping, environmental monitoring, and surveillance. In some cases, information gathering turns into a multiple target tracking …
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Learning of information gathering in modular intelligent systems
… limited resources for acquiring and processing information, a strategy is required to find and update task-relevant information sources efficiently in time. This thesis proposes a system level approach for the information gathering process and an implementation that puts this idea into work. The …
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Essays on information gathering in principal-agent contracts
… on principal-agent contracts under asymmetry of information. The papers investigate how the possibility of acquiring information influences contracts. The first essay analyzes the contract between a principal and an agent, when the principal can conduct an audit of the agent's cost of production. …
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Statistical models and decision making for robotic scientific information gathering
… and model design for autonomous scientific information gathering, demonstrating how theory from machine learning, decision theory, theory of optimal experimental design, and statistical inference can be used to develop online algorithms for robotic information gathering that are robust to …
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Statistical models and decision making for robotic scientific information gathering
… and model design for autonomous scientific information gathering, demonstrating how theory from machine learning, decision theory, theory of optimal experimental design, and statistical inference can be used to develop online algorithms for robotic information gathering that are robust to …
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The Information Gathering Habits of The Protestant Ministers of Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:47:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405668.pdf: 7154260 bytes, checksum: 8fa5ed9b9809048fc22f9d3ad9439775 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Risk-bounded autonomous information gathering for localization of phenomena in hazardous environments
… has been well-studied from the perspective of information maximization, but information gathering has not been considered with the intention of localizing specific phenomena, nor has it been considered in environments where exploration can threaten the vehicle. This thesis addresses both …
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Data-efficient learning for manipulation, locomotion, and information gathering involving granular media and deformable objects
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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What role does the decision support tool "MyBirthplace" play in women’s information gathering and decision making about place of birth?
… they improve knowledge and satisfaction with information, however less is known about DST use in pregnancy. MyBirthplace was developed by a National Health Service (NHS) Trust in response to both a local and national call for information in accessible formats and to enable women to be more …
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Information and the Limits of Air Power
… role in warfare, has a fundamental problem in gathering information. This paper compares the information gathering abilities of air power in World War Two and Desert Storm, two wars widely separated by time, by technology, and by other differences. The case study of World War Two shows how …
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The taxpayer's right to finality – a critical analysis of legislation and practice in South Africa
… I evaluate whether the exercise of the audit and information-gathering powers granted to the South African Revenue Service under sections 42 and 46 of the Tax Administration Act 28 of 2011 has the capacity to undermine taxpayers' rights to finality, and if so, what can be done to improve this …
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Strategic Sampling: A Framework for Enhancing Speed and Performance of Financial Fraud Detection Models
… their run-times are all dominated by extensive information-gathering steps. These steps involve aggregating information from a large set of nodes or edges within a graph, and these intensive steps are performed O(|V |) or O(|E|) times during an inference forward pass, on a graph with |V | nodes …
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Responses of Python regius to animal chemosensory stimuli: Implications of foraging ecology
… Searching Behavior (amount of locomotion) and Information Gathering Behavior (tongue flicking) were observed. Habituation to odors resulted in decreased behaviors. Odors of homeothermic animals elicited greater behavioral responses than did odors of poikilothermic animals. Particular …
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Hábitos e interesses dos usuários da Biblioteca Central da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
… and interests demonstrated during the process of information gathering are studied through the application of a questionnaire. Various groups os students and professors belonging to different university centers are observed.
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Estudo de usúarios na área de engenharia básica da Petrobrás
The information needs of the Basic Engineering technical group of the Research and Development Center of PETROBRÁS are defined througout the knowledge of formal and informal channels used by them and by their information gathering-behavior. The communication flow of the Basic Engineering area is …
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Agreement, Information and Time in Multiagent Systems
… optimally allocate resources towards 1) gaining information from which to infer the agreeing population's global agreement state (``information gathering'') and 2) effectively using that information to make convergence decisions that move towards agreement (``information use''), are the …
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Usuários de uma biblioteca universitária: estudo realizado no Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
… in their patterns of library utilization and information gathering habitudes. The answers are viewed as related to the Departments to which the users belong and as related to their qualification in the University: teachers, graduate students or undergraduates. With the application of Goffman’s …
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