Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for automatically selecting and operating autonomous vehicles to acquire inspection data relating to one or more inspected assets in response to received inspection request indicating the inspected assets. In particular, based on the inspection request required inspection data is automatically determined by analyzing one or more structural models representing the inspected asset(s) and mission parameters are computed for an inspection mission for acquiring the inspection data. Operational parameters of a plurality of autonomous vehicles are then analyzed with respect to the computed mission parameters to identify one or more autonomous vehicles which are capable of acquiring the inspection data. Operation instructions are further computed for one or more capable autonomous vehicles selected for the inspection mission to acquire the required inspection data and transmitted for operating the selected capable autonomous vehicle(s) accordingly.

Abstract: A system for conducting chat sessions on a screen, the system comprising apparatus for displaying, on a screen, a plurality of stationary avatars respectively representing a plurality of chat participants over time; and apparatus for displaying, on the screen, a temporal sequence of chat events including a processor operative to utilize stored metadata characterizing each event's position in the temporal sequence and each event's logical association with a respective one of the plurality of avatars to generate a visual representation of the temporal sequence in which both of the following are visually represented simultaneously: each event's position in the temporal sequence; and at least one logical association between each event and a respective one of the plurality of avatars.