This paper discusses an on-line Tasks Assignment and Routing Problem(TARP) for Autonomous Transportation Systems(ATSs) in manufacturing systems. The TARP results in a constrained ...
Off-road autonomous navigation is one of the most difficult automation challenges from the point of view of constraints on mobility, speed of motion, lack of environmental structur...
Abstract. With the emergence of mobile and ubiquitous computing environments, there is a requirement to enable collaborative applications between these environments. As many of the...
Steven Heeps, Joe Sventek, Naranker Dulay, Alberto...
In this paper, we propose a new model for securing agent-based systems in which agents are equipped with reasoning capabilities allowing them to interact with each other. The agen...
Jamal Bentahar, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Bernard Moul...
Decentralized resource allocation is a key problem for large-scale autonomic (or self-managing) computing systems. Motivated by a data center scenario, we explore efficient techn...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...