Special Issue on Cognitive Infocommunications. Theory and Applications – Guest Editorial

Cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom) investigates the link between the research areas of infocommunications and cognitive sciences, as well as the various engineering applications which have emerged as the synergic combination of these sciences. The primary goal of CogInfo-Com is to provide a systematic view of how cognitive processes can co-evolve with infocommunications devices so that the capabilities of the human brain may not only be extended through these devices, irrespective of geographical distance but may also be blended with the capabilities of any artificially cognitive system. This merging and extension of cognitive capabilities are targeted towards engineering applications in which artificial and/or natural cognitive systems are enabled to work together more effectively. The special issue presents the latest results in this scientific field

Representing the model of impedance controlled robot interaction with feedback delay in polytopic LPV form: TP model transformation based approach

The aim of this paper is to transform the model of the impedance controlled robot interaction with feedback delay to a Tensor Product (TP) type polytopic LPV model whereupon Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) based control design can be immediately executed. The paper proves that the impedance model can be exactly represented by a finite element TP type polytopic model under certain constrains. The paper also determines various further TP models with different advantages for control design. First, it derives the exact Higher Order Singular Value Decomposition (HOSVD) based canonical form, then it performs complexity trade-off to yield a model with less number of components but rather effective for LMI design. Then the paper presents various different types of convex TP model representations based on the non-exact model in order to investigate how convex hull manipulation can be performed on the model. Finally the presented models are analyzed to validate the accuracy of the transformation and the resulting TP type polytopic LPV models. The paper concludes that these prepared models are ready for convex hull manipulation and LMI based control design

Reassembling a World Order: Toward a New Historiography of the Paris Peace Conference

The evaluation of the Paris Peace Conference or the “Versailles–Washington world order” is one of the most widely discussed subjects in the study of history and international relations. The abundance of research and assessment is partly down to the formative character of the post-WWI peace on the national consciousness of many states and to the term ‘Versailles’ which has become an oft-recurring keyword in the analysis of international relations. Due to the sheer volume of accounts, a historiography of the Paris Peace Conference is inevitably a collection of the author’s own discretion. This paper focuses on the international historiography of the Paris Peace Conference and its consequences, and argues that after the consolidation of orthodoxies following 1919, and the triumph of revisionist history in the late-1980s, the scholarly community is now experiencing another reappraisal – beginning from the 2010s

Lágy számítástudományi uniform módszer kifejlesztése komplex nemlineáris rendszerek globális stabilizálására = Development of a Uniform Softcomputing Based Concept for Global Stabilization of Complex Nonlinear Systems

Céloknak megfelelően: 1) A TP-modell transzformáció és az qLPV (nemlineáris) dinamikus modellek politopikus alakjának HOSVD alapú kanonikus formája és annak numerikus rekonstrukciója bizonyítással együtt elkészült. További konvex burok manipulációs eljáráscsalád is készült, és ennek irányításelméleti és tervezési létjogosultsága bizonyításra került. Az eredmények alapján a pályázat vezetője ERC IDEAS második fordulóba jutott (~9000 EU pályázatból az első 5%-ba került), az MTA értekezése is már magába foglal eredményeket. Az eredmények 13 folyóirat (impakt.f: 4.6) és 13 nemz.köz. konferencia közleményben jelentek meg (ezekre 20 független hiv). 2) Egy könyv készült az eredményekből, mely a CRC Press Taylor & Francis tudományos kiadó elfogadott publikálásra, továbbá egy jegyzet is megjelenés alatt van ISBN 963 421 415 0 3) Egy teljes MATLAB toolbox készült mérnöki alkalmazásokhoz, MATLAB weboldalon vagy a tptool.sztaki.hu oldalról letölthető (a toolboxot 743 különböző érdeklődő tekintette meg a honlapon 63 országból) 4) Nyári képzést tartott a témavezető más európai országból érkező doktoranduszoknak az eredményekről. Meghivott szemináriumot tartott az eredményekről Hong kong-ban és Japánban. 5) A külföldi kapcsolatok (Hong Kongi Kinai Egytem) közös pulikácókkal erősödtek. | According to the goals: 1)The numerical reconstruction of the TP model transformation and the HOSVD based canonical form of polytopic qLPV (non-linear) models with their proof were completed. A set of methods for convex hull manipulation was also developed. It was also proven that the convex hull manipulation is an important part of the system control design. Based on these results the PI of this project was selected into II round of the ERC IDEAS program (he was selected into the first 5% of 9000 EU applicants). His dissertation for D.Sc. degree also includes some of these results. The result were published in 13 journal papers (imp.f: 4.6) and in 13 int.conf. papers 20 independent citations. 2)The result are also introduced in a book that was accepted by the CRC Press Taylor & Francis Editor for publication. A University text book is also under edition: ISBN 963 421 415 0 3)A MTALAB toolbox was also completed for engineering use. It can be downloaded from MATLAB website or from tptool.sztaki.hu (734 independent visitor from 63 countries were registered on the websites) 4) The PI was giving a summer course for Ph.D. students from different European countries. He also gave invited seminars in Hong Kong and Japan. 5) The cooperation with the Chinese University of Hong Kong resulted further publications

The International Division of Labor in Economists' Field: Academic Subordination in Exchange for Political Prerogatives in Argentina

Since the 1970s, economics has emerged as a global profession, with economists becoming main characters of the intellectual and political life in many countries. Inspired by Bourdieu, several analyses faced the challenge of “theorizing fields beyond the nation-state” (Buchholz 2016). Some scholars emphasized that internationalization entailed a growing asymmetry between dominant and dominated participants: the former acting as “exporters” and the latter as “importers” of ideas (Dezalay and Garth 2002). Others pointed out the process of “creative destruction” that accompanied the globalization of local fields (Fourcade 2006). Finally, still others noted the emergence of a new field of globalized experts and think tanks (Medvetz 2012). Through a socio-historical depiction of economists in Argentina, we problematize the subordinated role of peripheral economists. Rather than a dominant-dominated logic, we identify a new international division of labor. Based on more than 60 interviews with economists, archival research, and statistical analyses, this paper shows that while a dependent position in the global academic field reduced Argentinian economists’ theoretical autonomy, it gave them the scientific authority that in turn paved the road to access very well-paid work as consultants and high-level public servants