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Whole-Body Impedance Control of Wheeled Humanoid Robots
Introducing mobile humanoid robots into human environments requires the systems to physically interact and execute multiple concurrent tasks. The monograph at hand presents a whole-body torque controller for dexterous and safe robotic manipulation. This control approach enables a mobile humanoid robot to simultaneously meet several control objectives with different pre-defined levels of priorit…
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- 978-3-319-40557-5
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Weighting Methods and their Effects on Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model O…
This book provides a systematic way of how to make better decisions in water resources management. The applications of three weighting methods namely rating, ranking, and ratio are discussed in this book. Additionally, data mining on keywords is presented using three popular scholarly databases: Science Direct, Scopus, and SciVerse. Four abbreviated keywords (MCDM, MCDA, MCA, MADM) representing…
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Web-Age Information Management 16th International Conference, WAIM 2015, Qin…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2015, held in Qingdao, China, in June 2015. The 33 full research papers, 31 short research papers, and 6 demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 164 submissions. The focus of the conference is on following topics: advanced database and web applications, bi…
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Web Technologies and Applications APWeb 2015 Workshops, BSD, WDMA, and BDAT,…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held at the 17th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2015, in Guangzhou, China, in September 2015. The 15 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Big Data Applications in Telecoms, BDAT 2015, Big Social Data, BSD…
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Living with algorithms :agency and user culture in Costa Rica
"How people in Costa Rica live with algorithms in their daily life"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Art as demonstration :a revolutionary recasting of knowledge
"With a focus on political art and protest, this book examines demonstration-practiced as pedagogy, art form, and public protest by artists-as a powerful powerful agent of change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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An anthology of Blackness :the state of Black design
"Shows why the design field has consistently failed to attract Black professionals, how Eurocentric hegemony impacts Black designers & how to create an antiracist, pro-Black design industry instead"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Art for coexistence :unlearning the way we see migration
"How contemporary artistic practice insists on and models coexistence in the face of the 21st century's monumental migration crises and its alienating and dehumanizing effects"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The smartness mandate
"This book describes the decades-long genealogy and governing logic of what we call the smartness mandate. While "smart" devices and infrastructures such as smart electrical grids, smart cities, and smart phones proliferated in the 1990s and early 2000s, the smartness mandate, which aims to link these individual instances of smart technologies into a coherent project of governance, was first ex…
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Cats, carpenters, and accountants :bibliographical foundations of information…
"This book argues that bibliography is the foundation of information science, an infrastructure with the power to address many of the most challenging issues in the field. Bibliographers establish what has been presented to us as records of what has been known, experienced, and desired, and they are responsible for assessing and safeguarding what has arrived in the present and for reproducing w…
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