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The complexity of technical systems increases, breakdowns occur quite often. The mission of organic computing is to tame these challenges by providing degrees of freedom for self-organised behaviour. To achieve these goals, new methods have to be developed. The proposed observer/controller architecture constitutes one way to achieve controlled self-organisation. To improve its design, multi-agent scenarios are investigated. Especially, learning using learning classifier systems is addressed.

organic computing --- multi-agent simulation --- controlled self-organisation --- observer/controller architecture --- extended learning classifier system

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virtual reality --- augmented reality --- extended reality --- haptics --- immersive media --- Virtual reality --- Virtual reality. --- Environments, Virtual --- Virtual environments --- Virtual worlds --- Computer simulation --- Reality

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This volume addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts with an overview of the empirical and policy literature; continues with a discussion of the relevant theoretical perspectives; includes a section on available data and indicators; followed by 25 very concise and unique country reports that highlight the main extended working life (EWL) research findings and policy trajectories at the national level. It identifies future directions for research and addresses issues associated with effective policy-making. This volume fills an important gap in the knowledge of the consequences of EWL and it will be an invaluable source for both researchers and policy makers. .

Social policy. --- Industrial sociology. --- Employee health promotion. --- Aging. --- Sociology. --- Social Policy. --- Sociology of Work. --- Employee Health and Wellbeing. --- Gender Studies. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Employee wellness programs --- Employees --- Health promotion in the workplace --- Occupational health promotion --- Workplace health promotion --- Worksite health promotion --- Health promotion --- Occupational health services --- Sociology --- Industrial organization --- Industries --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Physiological effect --- Social aspects --- Social Policy --- Sociology of Work --- Employee Health and Wellbeing --- Aging --- Gender Studies --- Human Resource Management --- Extended Working Life (EWL) --- Influences of Gender and Health on EWL --- Foundation for Evidence-Based Policymaking --- Extended Working Life Debate --- Gender and Health of Older Workers --- Extended Working Life and Pension Policies --- Introduction of Extended Working Life (EWL) Policies --- Europe and Dealing with Extending the Working Life --- Extended Working Life Under Neoliberal Societal Change --- Indicators for Health and Socio-Economic Well-Being --- Implications for Well-Being in a Gender Perspective --- Extended Working Life and Employment Policies --- Extended Working Life and Health Policies --- Precarious Emplyment and Improving Policies --- Open Access --- Political economy --- Social & ethical issues --- Sociology: work & labour --- Personnel & human resources management --- Age groups: the elderly --- Age groups: adults --- Gender studies, gender groups

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Intended to introduce readers to the use of artificial neural networks in the study of music, this volume contains numerous case studies and research findings that address problems related to identifying scales, keys, classifying musical chords, and learning jazz chord progressions. A detailed analysis of networks is provided for each case study which together demonstrate that focusing on the internal structure of trained networks could yield important contributions to the field of music cognition.

Music --- Psychological aspects --- Physiological aspects --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- circle of fifths, tonal harmony, Western classical, Coltrane, perceptrons, scales, extended chords.

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being increasingly used in different applications in both military and civilian domains. These applications include surveillance, reconnaissance, remote sensing, target acquisition, border patrol, infrastructure monitoring, aerial imaging, industrial inspection, and emergency medical aid. Vehicles that can be considered autonomous must be able to make decisions and react to events without direct intervention by humans. Although some UAVs are able to perform increasingly complex autonomous manoeuvres, most UAVs are not fully autonomous; instead, they are mostly operated remotely by humans. To make UAVs fully autonomous, many technological and algorithmic developments are still required. For instance, UAVs will need to improve their sensing of obstacles and subsequent avoidance. This becomes particularly important as autonomous UAVs start to operate in civilian airspaces that are occupied by other aircraft. The aim of this volume is to bring together the work of leading researchers and practitioners in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles with a common interest in their autonomy. The contributions that are part of this volume present key challenges associated with the autonomous control of unmanned aerial vehicles, and propose solution methodologies to address such challenges, analyse the proposed methodologies, and evaluate their performance.

n/a --- super twisting sliding mode controller (STSMC) --- monocular visual SLAM --- modulation --- bio-inspiration --- simulation --- horizontal control --- sensor fusion --- ADRC --- high-order sliding mode --- over-the-horizon air confrontation --- longitudinal motion model --- autonomous control --- real-time ground vehicle detection --- maneuver decision --- nonlinear dynamics --- UAV automatic landing --- harmonic extended state observer --- image processing --- General Visual Inspection --- actuator faults --- actuator fault --- remote sensing --- aerial infrared imagery --- agricultural UAV --- SC-FDM --- tilt rotors --- mass eccentricity --- wind disturbance --- decoupling algorithm --- adaptive discrete mesh --- disturbance --- super twisting extended state observer (STESO) --- heuristic exploration --- sliding mode control --- UAS --- Q-Network --- UAV communication system --- UAV --- reinforcement learning --- autonomous landing area selection --- peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) --- slung load --- aircraft maintenance --- flight mechanics --- octree --- unmanned aerial vehicle --- convolutional neural network --- aircraft --- performance evaluation --- quadrotor --- vertical take off --- data link --- path planning --- coaxial-rotor --- fixed-time extended state observer (FTESO) --- multi-UAV system --- hardware-in-the-loop --- distributed swarm control --- vertical control