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

Truer than Fiction: Nadine Gordimer Writing Post-Apartheid South Africa (German Edition)

Szczurek, Karina Magdalena

Sociology

Das Grundrecht auf Datenschutz: unter spezieller Berücksichtigung von Videoüberwachung und Internet (German Edition)

Mair, Regina

Administrative Law

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

The tremendously high CO2 emissions resulting from decades of unsustainable generation of electricity and heat from fossil fuels are widely recognised as the main cause of climate change, today¿s biggest threat to the environment. There is an urgent need for the deployment of more sustainable energy technologies. A promising option for a more sustainable energy supply of residential buildings are micro CHP systems, ie systems for the combined production of heat and power that operate at a very small scale and are located close the point of consumption. However, micro CHP is still far from penetrating the market, and a good deal of work is needed to find a way out of this situation. This book contributes to business-related research on residential micro CHP by investigating the following questions: a) What is the market environment for residential micro CHP in Europe¿s largest markets, and what are the implications for business models in these markets? b) What does actual business practice look like in these markets? c) What are possible future developments in the market for residential micro CHP, and how do they affect business models?

Business Models for Micro CHP in Residential Buildings

Boehnke, Jasper

Management & Leadership

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

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