Tag: Adapting

Metareasoning for Robots Adapting in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science)


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English | May 13, 2023 | ISBN: 3031322363 | 105 pages | MOBI | 6.70 Mb
This book is a state of the art resource that robotics researchers and engineers can use to make their robots and autonomous vehicles smarter. Readers will be able to describe metareasoning, select an appropriate metareasoning approach, and synthesize metareasoning policies. Metareasoning for Robots adopts a systems engineering perspective in which metareasoning is an approach that can improve the overall robot or autonomous system, not just one component or subsystem. This book introduces key concepts, discusses design options for metareasoning approaches and policies, and presents approaches for testing and evaluation of metareasoning policies. After considering the conceptual design phase, it discusses how to implement metareasoning in the robot’s software architecture and how to synthesize metareasoning policies. Every chapter has references to valuable works on robotics and metareasoning, and the book uses examples from the author’s own research and from other research groups to illustrate these ideas. In addition, this book provides links to books and papers for readers who wish to investigate these topics further.

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Filming the Children’s Book Adapting Metafiction


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English | ISBN: 1474413560 | 2019 | 224 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Just as a work of self-reflexive ‘metafiction’ – and the experience of reading it – differ from other types of literature, the work and the experience of viewing films that adapt metafiction are distinct from those of other films, and from other film adaptations of literary works.

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Sales Excellence Adapting to a New Way of Selling


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1637425163 | 327 Pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Selling today has gone through profound changes in the past 3 years, culminating in new changes in methods and company employee arrangements. This book brings together the changes to selling post pandemic and lays out the new approaches to selling under what have been difficult circumstances for all sales professionals.

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