A collective of agents often needs to maximize a “world utility” function which rates the performance of an entire system, while subject to communication restrictions among th...
Managers of systems of shared resources typically have many separate goals. Examples are efficient utilization of the resources among its users and ensuring no user’s satisfacti...
The paper presents a theory for modeling flow in anisotropic, viscous rock. This theory has originally been developed for the simulation of large deformation processes including t...
Online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending organizations enable an individual to obtain an unsecured loan from a collection of individuals without the participation of a bank. Previous res...
ct A simple gripper with two vertical cylindrical jaws can make contact with external or internal concavities in polygonal and polyhedral parts to align and grip parts in form clos...