Young-Ho Kim

This book brings Korea's finest foreign policy minds together in contemplating the risks and rewards of finally ending the 70 year stalemate between North and South Korea through reunification. While North Korea is in conflict with the United States over denuclearization and regime security, the South Korean government is focusing on economic development preparing for the day when the two Koreas are unified. This book will help scholars, activists and policy-makers from all over the world systematically understand the current diplomatic and security issues in the Korean peninsula.

This book brings Korea's finest foreign policy minds together in contemplating the risks and rewards of finally ending the 70 year stalemate between North and South Korea through reunification. While North Korea is in conflict with the United States over denuclearization and regime security, the South Korean government is focusing on economic development preparing for the day when the two Koreas are unified. This book will help scholars, activists and policy-makers from all over the world systematically understand the current diplomatic and security issues in the Korean peninsula.

Die Parusie wird traditionell im Themenkomplex der Naherwartungsverzögerung behandelt. Aufgrund dieses Interpretationsparadigmas wurden der Ereigniszusammenhang der lukanischen Parusieaussagen und die Struktur der eschatologischen Perspektiven des Lukas kaum beachtet. Das vorliegende Buch untersucht die lukanische Parusieauffassung nicht nur vor dem Hintergrund der innerchristlichen Tradition, sondern stellt diese in den traditionsgeschichtlichen Kontext der frühjüdischen "Parusievorstellungen". Hierfür werden intensiv die frühjüdischen Schriften zu Zeitvorstellungen und Eschatologie untersucht und herangezogen. Die Parusie ist bei Lukas als ein mit der gegenwärtigen Herrschaft Christi verbundener integrierter Bestandteil des extendierten Christusgeschehens zu verstehen. Die Naherwartung zielt nicht auf einen vorhersagbaren Zeitpunkt, der verfehlt worden wäre, sondern bestimmt die eschatologische Dimension der alltäglichen "Wachsamkeit".

Complex industrial or robotic systems with uncertainty and disturbances are difficult to control. As system uncertainty or performance requirements increase, it becomes necessary to augment traditional feedback controllers with additional feedback loops that effectively “add intelligence” to the system. Some theories of artificial intelligence (AI) are now showing how complex machine systems should mimic human cognitive and biological processes to improve their capabilities for dealing with uncertainty. This book bridges the gap between feedback control and AI. It provides design techniques for “high-level” neural-network feedback-control topologies that contain servo-level feedback-control loops as well as AI decision and training at the higher levels. Several advanced feedback topologies containing neural networks are presented, including “dynamic output feedback”, “reinforcement learning” and “optimal design”, as well as a “fuzzy-logic reinforcement” controller. The control topologies are intuitive, yet are derived using sound mathematical principles where proofs of stability are given so that closed-loop performance can be relied upon in using these control systems. Computer-simulation examples are given to illustrate the performance.