Cover -- Improving Stability in Developing Nations Through Automation 2006 -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- MECHATRONICS EDUCATION AND INTERNATIONAL STABILITY THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY-LEVEL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES IN ADVANCED ENGINEERING IN KOSOVO -- 1. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT -- 2. MECHATRONICS & ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT -- 3. ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT EDUCATION & MECHATRONICS MANAGEMENT -- 4. DEVELOPING A KOSOVAN MECHATRONICS MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME -- 5. CURRICULUM DESIGN: THEORETICAL APPROACH -- 4. SUMMARY -- 6. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- TERRORISM, HUMAN RIGHTS AND ETHICS: A MODELLING APPROACH -- 1. INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS 'TERRORISM'? -- 2. CONTEXT FOR TERRORISM -- 3. ETHICAL ANALYSIS -- 4. THE ETHICS OF COUNTER TERRORISM -- 5. HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE FEAR OF TERRORISM -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ENERGY PROVIDING AND CONSUMPTION CAN CAUSE INSTABILITY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CONTROL (SYSTEMS) ENGINEERING AND CONFLICT SOLUTION -- 3. ENERGY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION IN THE WORLD -- 4. MODELLING -- 5. DISCUSSION -- 6. CONCLUSION -- 7. REFERENCES -- A ROLE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IN MECHATRONICS -- 1. MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS AND MECHATRONICS -- 2. MECHANICAL ISSUES -- 3. EXPERIENCES AT UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- A MECHATRONICS MANAGEMENT LABORATORY -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 EQUIPMENT -- 3. ORGANISATION FOR EFFECTIVE, ACTIVE LEARNING -- 4. SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK -- 5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- 6. LITERATURE -- SOCIAL STABILITY IN A STRESSED ECOSYSTEM -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ECOLOGICAL DECLINE -- 3. CHALLENGES TO SOCIAL STABILITY -- 4. UNDEREMPLOYMENT AND STRESS ON EXISTING SOCIAL PARADIGMS -- 5. A NEW SOCIAL PARADIGM -- 6. VIEWS OF HUMAN SOCIETY -- 7. SOCIAL DETERMINANTS -- 8. REPRESENTATIVE APPROACHES TO GLOBALSTABIL -- 9. CONDITIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE STABILITY -- REFERENCES -- CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE -- 3. SECURITY -- 4. DEPENDABILITY -- 5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- DECISION MAKING IN TOC-PRODUCT-MIX SELECTION VIA FUZZY COST FUNCTION OPTIMIZATION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. A FUZZY SYSTEM APPROCH TO TOC PRODUCT-MIX PROBLEM -- 3. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- LEARNMATHS: A CASE STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT SOCIAL INCLUSION -- 1. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT -- 2. LEARNING DISABILITY IN MATHEMATICS -- 3. THE NEED FOR EDUCATION SUPPORTSOLUTIONS -- 4. THE LEARNMATHS ASSITIVE TCCHNOLOGY SOLUTION -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CURRENT ETHICAL SCRUPLES CONCERNING INFORMATION ENGINEERING -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PRIVACY AND SECURITY, TWO DRAMAS OF OUR DAYS -- 3. PRIVACY AND SECURITY MEANS LIBERTYAND SOLIDARITY WITH ALL THEIR COHERENCE AND CONTRADICTIONS -- 4. WHO GUARDS THE GUARDS? - FEEDBACK OF ENLIGHTENED DEMOCRACY -- 5. ADVANCES IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION -- 6. STRONG ETHICS OF A SCEPTIC VIEW -- 7. HUNGARIAN SITUATION AND SOME ABOUT OUR GROUP'S ACTIVITY -- 8. CONCLUSION AND WARNING -- COMPLEXITY OF SOCIAL SYSTEM CYBERNETICS: RISK AND UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT IN NEGOTIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. NEGOTIATION STRUCTURE: ISSUES ANDVIEWS ON INFORMATION AND UNCERTAINTY -- 3. THE NATURE OF INFORMATION: HATFIELD HIPEL THEORY REVISITED -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE ECONOMICS AND POLITICS OF ENERGY GENERATION -- 1. INTRODUCTION: ENERGY SUPPLY AND DEMAND -- 2. RENEWABLE ENERGY -- 3. THE ECONOMICS OF RENEWABLES -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ECONOMIC, ETHICAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF ICT CHANGE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FTNAL REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- AUTOMATION, CONTROL AND SUPERVISION OF COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEMS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE POWERSTER SYSTEM -- 3. EXEMPLARY PROBLEM SOLUTION -- 4. SOME TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ISSUES -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.

COORDINATION OF THE MULTI AGENT SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION TO ROBOT SOCCER -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ROBOT SOCCER SYSTEM -- 3. MICROROBOT ARCHITECTURE OF ROBOT SOCCER -- 4. MOBILE ROBOT MOVEMENT COORDINATION -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- 6. REFERENCES -- HUMANOID ROBOTS FOR HUMAN LIFE SUPPORT -- 1. WHY SHOULD WE USE ROBOTS? -- 2. TYPICAL HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITIES -- 3. HUMANOID ROBOTS FOR DAILY LIFE SUPPORT -- 4. SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- STRATEGIES AND PREDICTION IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. STRATEGIES -- 3. MICRO MOBILE ROBOT -- 4. PREDICTION ALGORITHMS FOR MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM (Kopacek, et al. 2001) -- 5. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- REFERENCES -- CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE -- AUTHOR'S INDEX.