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AP2PC
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Incentive Mechanisms for Peer-to-Peer Systems
Abstract. Most of the existing research in peer-to-peer systems focuses on protocol design and doesn’t consider the rationality of each peer. One phenomenon that should not be ig...
Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh
SIAMCO
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Stable Synchronization of Mechanical System Networks
In this paper we address stabilization of a network of underactuated mechanical systems with unstable dynamics. The coordinating control law stabilizes the unstable dynamics with ...
Sujit Nair, Naomi Ehrich Leonard
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Comparing trust mechanisms for monitoring aggregator nodes in sensor networks
Sensor nodes are often used to collect data from locations inaccessible or hazardous for humans. As they are not under normal supervision, these nodes are particularly susceptible...
Oly Mistry, Anil Gürsel, Sandip Sen
GECCO
2005
Springer
114views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A resource-allocation mechanism for multiagent networks
The nature of computer networks and the manner in which network services are provided are changing dramatically. Network architectures that employ virtual mobile agents to provide...
Vishakh, Nicholas Urrea, Tadashi Nakano, Tatsuya S...
CAS
2005
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13 years 7 months ago
Bringing Up Robot: Fundamental Mechanisms For Creating A Self-Motivated, Self-Organizing Architecture
In this paper we propose an intrinsic developmental algorithm that is designed to allow a mobile robot to incrementally progress through levels of increasingly sophisticated behav...
Douglas S. Blank, Deepak Kumar, Lisa Meeden, James...