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Mobile Manipulation
Motion Generation / Real-Time Path Modification
Decomposition-Based Motion Planning
Sampling-Based Motion Planning
Mobile Navigation
Multi-objective Behavior in Teams of Robots
Multi-Robot Workcell
Solid Modeling
General Framework

Computational Biology

Networking

 

Mobile Manipulation

Dov Katz, Yuri Pyuro, and Oliver Brock. Learning to Manipulate Articulated Objects in Unstructured Environments Using a Grounded Relational Representation. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2008. html
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Dov Katz, Jacqueline Kenney, and Oliver Brock. How Can Robots Succeed in Unstructured Environments? In Proceedings of Robot Manipulation: Intelligence in Human Environments at Robotics: Science and Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2008. pdf
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock. Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception. In Unifying Perspectives In Computational and Robot Vision, Danica Kragnic, Ville Kyrki (editors), Springer Verlag, May 2008. html
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock. Manipulating Articulated Objects With Interactive Perception. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, USA, May 2008. pdf
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock. Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception. In Workshop: Robot Manipulation: Sensing and Adapting to the Real World at the Robotics: Science and Systems, Atlanta, USA, June 2007. pdf
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock. Interactive Perception: Closing the Gap Between Action and Perception. In Workshop: From features to actions - Unifying perspectives in computational and robot vision at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy, April 2007. pdf
Robert Platt, Robert Burridge, Myron Diftler, Jodi Graf, Mike Goza, Eric Huber, and Oliver Brock. Humanoid Mobile Manipulation Using Controller Refinement. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Genova, Italy, December 2006. pdf
Katz, Dov, Emily Horrell, Yuandong Yang, Brendan Burns, Thomas Buckley, Anna Grishkan, Volodymyr Zhylkovskyy, Oliver Brock, Erik Learned-Miller. The UMass Mobile Manipulator UMan: An Experimental Platform for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation. In Workshop on Manipulation in Human Environments at Robotics: Science and Systems, Philadelphia, USA, August 2006. pdf
Yuandong Yang and Oliver Brock. Elastic Roadmaps: Globally Task-Consistent Motion for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Philadephia, USA, August 2006. pdf
Grupen, Roderic and Oliver Brock. White Paper: Integrating Manual Dexterity with Mobility for Human-Scale Service Robotics -- The Case for Concentrated Research into Science and Technology Supporting Next-Generation Robotic Assistants. Signatories: Robert Ambrose, Christopher Atkeson, Oliver Brock, Rodney Brooks, Chris Brown, Joel Burdick, Mark Cutkosky, Andrew Fagg, Roderic Grupen, Jeffrey Hoffman, Robert Howe, Manfred Huber, Oussama Khatib, Pradeep Khosla, Vijay Kumar, Lawrence Leifer, Maja Mataric, Randal Nelson, Alan Peters, Kenneth Salisbury, Shankar Sastry, Robert Savely. pdf
Rosenstein, Michael, Robert Platt, Patrick Deegan, John Sweeney, Oliver Brock, Andrew Fagg, and Roderic Grupen. Haptic Coupling of Dexerous Manipulation and Dynamic Mobility. In Video Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Los Angeles, USA, November 2004. avi
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Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Elastic Strips: A Framework for Motion Generation in Human Environments. International Journal of Robotics Research 21(12):1031-1052, 2002. pdf
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Brock, Oliver, Oussama Khatib, and Sriram Viji. Task-Consistent Obstacle Avoidance and Motion Behavior for Mobile Manipulation. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2002, pages 388-393, Washingtion, USA, 2002. pdf
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Brock, Oliver, Oussama Khatib, and Sriram Viji. Task-Consistent Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Manipulation. In Video Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Washington, USA, 2002. avi
Khatib, Oussama, Kazu Yokoi, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, and Arancha Casal. Robots in Human Environments. In Archives of Control Sciences, Special Issue on Granular Computing. Volume 11 (XLVII), 2001, No. 3-4, pages 123-128, 2002. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Integrated Planning and Execution: Elastic Strips. In Proceedings of the World Automation Congress. Maui, USA, 2000. pdf
Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Real-Time Replanning in High-Dimensional Configuration Spaces Using Sets of Homotopic Paths. In Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 550-555, San Francisco, USA, 2000. pdf
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Brock, Oliver. Generation of Robot Motion: Integrating Planning and Execution. Ph.D. Thesis. Stanford University. November 1999. pdf
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Khatib, Oussama, Kazu Yokoi, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, and Arancha Casal. Robots in Human Environments: Basic Autonomous Capabilities. International Journal of Robotics Research. 18(7), pages 684-696, 1999. pdf
Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Elastic Strips: An Integrated Framework for Planning and Execution. In Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol.250, pages 328-338, Springer Verlag, 1999.
Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Elastic Strips: A Framework for Integrated Planning and Execution. In Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. Preprints, pages 245-54. Sydney, Australia, 1999. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Executing Motion Plans for Robots with Many Degrees of Freedom in Dynamic Environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Volume 1, pages 1-6, Leuven, Belgium, 1998. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Mobile Manipulation: Collision-Free Path Modification and Motion Coordination. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, Volume 4, pages 839-845, 1998. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Elastic Strips: Real-Time Path Modification for Mobile Manipulation. In Robotics Research, pages 5-13, Springer Verlag, 1998. pdf
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Motion Generation

Yuandong Yang and Oliver Brock. Elastic Roadmaps: Globally Task-Consistent Motion for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Philadephia, USA, August 2006. pdf
Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Elastic Strips: A Framework for Motion Generation in Human Environments. International Journal of Robotics Research 21(12):1031-1052, 2002. pdf
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Brock, Oliver, Oussama Khatib, and Sriram Viji. Task-Consistent Obstacle Avoidance and Motion Behavior for Mobile Manipulation. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2002, pages 388-393, Washingtion, USA, 2002. pdf
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Brock, Oliver, Oussama Khatib, and Sriram Viji. Task-Consistent Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Manipulation. In Video Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Washington, USA, 2002. avi
Khatib, Oussama, Kazu Yokoi, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, and Arancha Casal. Robots in Human Environments. In Archives of Control Sciences, Special Issue on Granular Computing. Volume 11 (XLVII), 2001, No. 3-4, pages 123-128, 2002. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Integrated Planning and Execution: Elastic Strips. In Proceedings of the World Automation Congress. Maui, USA, 2000. pdf
Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Real-Time Replanning in High-Dimensional Configuration Spaces Using Sets of Homotopic Paths. In Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 550-555, San Francisco, USA, 2000. pdf
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Brock, Oliver. Generation of Robot Motion: Integrating Planning and Execution. Ph.D. Thesis. Stanford University. November 1999. pdf
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Khatib, Oussama, Kazu Yokoi, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, and Arancha Casal. Robots in Human Environments: Basic Autonomous Capabilities. International Journal of Robotics Research. 18(7), pages 684-696, 1999. pdf
Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Elastic Strips: A Framework for Integrated Planning and Execution. In Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. Preprints, pages 245-54. Sydney, Australia, 1999. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Executing Motion Plans for Robots with Many Degrees of Freedom in Dynamic Environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Volume 1, pages 1-6, Leuven, Belgium, 1998. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Mobile Manipulation: Collision-Free Path Modification and Motion Coordination. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, Volume 4, pages 839-845, 1998. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Elastic Strips: Real-Time Path Modification for Mobile Manipulation. In Robotics Research, pages 5-13, Springer Verlag, 1998. pdf
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Decomposition-Based Motion Planning

Yuandong Yang and Oliver Brock. Elastic Roadmaps: Globally Task-Consistent Motion for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Philadephia, USA, August 2006. pdf
Yang, Yuandong and Oliver Brock. Efficient Motion Planning Based on Disassembly. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Cambridge, USA, June 2005. pdf
Yang, Yuandong and Oliver Brock. Viewing Motion Planning as Disassmbly: A Decomposition-Based Approach for Non-Stationary Robots. Technical Report 04-108. Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, December 2004. pdf
Brock, Oliver and Lydia E. Kavraki. Decomposition-based Motion Planning: A Framework for Real-time Motion Planning in High-dimensional Configuration Spaces. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Seoul, Korea, 2001. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Lydia E. Kavraki. Towards Real-time Motion Planning in High-Dimensional Spaces. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics and Automation. Monterey, Mexico, 2000. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Lydia E. Kavraki. Decomposition-based Motion Planning: Towards Real-time Planning for Robots with Many Degrees of Freedom. Technical Report TR00-367, Computer Science Department, Rice University, August 2000. pdf
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Sampling-Based Motion Planning

Markus Rickert, Oliver Brock, and Alois Knoll. Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Motion Planning. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, USA, May 2008. pdf
Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Sampling-Based Motion Planning With Sensing Uncertainty. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy, April 2007. pdf
Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Single-Query Motion Planning With Utility-Guided Random Trees. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy, April 2007. pdf
Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Uncertain Knowledge. Technical Report 06-30. Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, June 2006. pdf
Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Utility-Guided Random Trees. Technical Report 06-29. Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, June 2006. pdf
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock. Toward Optimal Configuration Space Sampling. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Cambridge, USA, June 2005. pdf
Yang, Yuandong and Oliver Brock. Efficient Motion Planning Based on Disassembly. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Cambridge, USA, June 2005. pdf
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock. Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Predictive Models. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005. pdf
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock. Single-Query Entropy-Guided Path Planning. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005. pdf
Yang, Yuandong and Oliver Brock. Viewing Motion Planning as Disassmbly: A Decomposition-Based Approach for Non-Stationary Robots. Technical Report 04-108. Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, December 2004. pdf
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock. Single-Query Entropy-Guided Motion Planning. Technical Report 04-76. Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2004. pdf
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock. Model-Based Motion Planning. Technical Report 04-32. Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2004. pdf
Yang, Yuandong and Oliver Brock. Adapting the Sampling Distribution in PRM Planners Based on an Approximated Medial Axis. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, USA, April 2004. pdf
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock. Information Theoretic Construction of Probabilistic Roadmaps. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages 650-655, Las Vegas, USA, 2003. pdf

Mobile Navigation

Thibodeau, Bryan J., Stephen W. Hart, Deepak R. Karuppiah, John D. Sweeney, and Oliver Brock. A Cascaded Filter Approach to Multi-Objective Control. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, USA, April 2004. pdf
Thibodeau, Bryan J., Stephen W. Hart, Deepak R. Karuppiah, John D. Sweeney, and Oliver Brock. A Cascaded Filter Approach to Multi-Objective Control using the Segway RMP. In Video Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, USA, April 2004. avi
Yang, Yuandong, Oliver Brock, and Roderic A. Grupen. Exploiting Redundancy to Implement Multi-Objective Behavior. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 3385-3390, Taipei, Taiwan, 2003. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. High-Speed Navigation Using the Global Dynamic Window Approach. In Video Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. San Francisco, USA, 2000. avi
Brock, Oliver. Generation of Robot Motion: Integrating Planning and Execution. Ph.D. Thesis. Stanford University. November 1999. pdf
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Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. High-Speed Navigation Using the Global Dynamic Window Approach. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 341-346, Detroit, USA, 1999. pdf
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Multi-objective Behavior in Teams of Robots

Thibodeau, Bryan J., Stephen W. Hart, Deepak R. Karuppiah, John D. Sweeney, and Oliver Brock. A Cascaded Filter Approach to Multi-Objective Control. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, USA, April 2004. pdf
Yang, Yuandong, Oliver Brock, and Roderic A. Grupen. Exploiting Redundancy to Implement Multi-Objective Behavior. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, 2003. pdf
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Multi-Robot Workcell

Brock, Oliver and Oussama Khatib. Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance and Motion Coordination in a Multi-Robot Workcell. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning. Porto, Portugal, July 1999. pdf
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Solid Modeling

Yang, Yuandong, Oliver Brock, and Robert N. Moll. Efficient and Robust Computation of an Approximated Medial Axis. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, pages 15-24, Genova, Italy, June 2004. pdf

General Framework

Brock, Oliver, Andrew Fagg, Roderic Grupen, Robert Platt, Michael Rosenstein, and John Sweeney. A Framework for Learning and Control in Intelligent Humanoid Robots. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics 2(3):301-336, 2005. pdf
Khatib, Oussama, Oliver Brock, K.C. Chang, Diego Ruspini, Luis Sentis, Sriram Viji. Human-Centered Robotics and Interactive Haptic Simulation. International Journal of Robotics Research 23(2):167-178, 2004. pdf
Platt, Robert, Oliver Brock, Andrew H. Fagg, Deepak Karupiah, Michael Rosenstein, Jefferson Coelho, Manfred Huber, Justus Piater, David Wheeler, and Roderic A. Grupen. A Framework for Humanoid Control and Intelligence. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, München/Karlsruhe, Germany, 2003. pdf
Khatib, Oussama, Oliver Brock, K.C. Chang, Diego Ruspini, Luis Sentis, Sriram Viji. Robots for the Human and Interactive Simulations. In Proceedings of the 11th World Congress in Mechanism and Machine Science, Tianjin, China, 2003. pdf
Khatib, Oussama, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, Francois Conti, Diego Ruspini, and Luis Sentis. Robotics and Interactive Simulation. In Communications of the ACM 45(3), pages 46-51, March 2002. pdf
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Khatib, Oussama, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, Diego Ruspini, Luis Sentis, and Sriram Viji. Human-Centered Robotics and Interactive Haptic Simulation. In Robotics Research. Springer Verlag, 2002. pdf
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Khatib, Oussama, Kazu Yokoi, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, and Arancha Casal. Robots in Human Environments. In Archives of Control Sciences, Special Issue on Granular Computing. Volume 11 (XLVII), 2001, No. 3-4, pages 123-128, 2002. pdf
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Khatib, Oussama, Kazu Yokoi, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, and Arancha Casal. Robots in Human Environments: Basic Autonomous Capabilities. International Journal of Robotics Research. 18(7), pages 684-696, 1999. pdf
Khatib Oussama, Kazu Yokoi, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, and Arancha Casal. Robots in Human Environments. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Robot Motion and Control. Pages 213-221, June 1999.
Khatib, Oussama, Oliver Brock, et al. Dancing with Juliet. In Video Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Detroit, USA, 1999. mov

Computational Biology

Filip Jagodzinski and Oliver Brock. Towards a Mechanistic View of Protein Motion. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control New Orleans, USA, December 2007. pdf
Filip Jagodzinski and Oliver Brock. Using a Mechanistic Perspective to Simulate Protein Backbone Motion. Poster presentation at Annual Symposium of the Protein Society Boston, USA, July 2007. pdf
TJ Brunette and Oliver Brock. Search Improvements Lead to Improved Accuracy in Protein Structure Prediction. Poster presentation at Annual Symposium of the Protein Society Boston, USA, July 2007. pdf
TJ Brunette and Oliver Brock. Guiding Sampling toward Biologically Relevant Conformations in the Protein Energy Landscape. Poster presentation at Annual Symposium of the Protein Society San Diego, USA, August 2006. pdf
Lee, Audrey, Ileana Streinu, and Oliver Brock. A Methodology for Efficiently Sampling the Conformation Space of Molecular Structures. Physical Biology 2:S108-S115, November 2005. html
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Brock, Oliver and TJ Brunette. Predicting Protein Structure with Guided Conformation Space Search. Technical Report 05-63. Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, November 2005. pdf
Brunette, TJ and Oliver Brock. Improving Protein Structure Prediction with Model-Based Search. Bioinformatics 21(Suppl. 1):66-74, June 2005.
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Brunette, TJ and Oliver Brock. Model-Based Search to Determine Minima in Molecular Energy Landscapes. Technical Report 04-48. Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2004. pdf

Networking

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, and Brian N. Levine. MORA routing and capacity building in disruption-tolerant networks. Ad Hoc Networks 6(4):600-620, 2008. html
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, and Brian N. Levine. Autonomous Enhancement of Disruption Tolerant Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, USA, May 2006. pdf
Burns, Brendan, Oliver Brock, and Brian N. Levine. MV - Routing and Capacity Building in Disruption Tolerant Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005, Miami, USA, March 2005. pdf
Burns, Brendan, Oliver Brock, and Brian N. Levine. MV - Routing and Capacity Building in Disruption Tolerant Networks. Technical Report 04-68. Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2004. pdf