This paper proposes a new methodology for coordinating multi-robot teams in the execution of cooperative tasks. It is based on a dynamic role assignment mechanism in which the rob...
Luiz Chaimowicz, Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos,...
Promise theory defines a method by which static service bindings are made in a network, but little work has been done on handling the dynamic case in which bindings must change ov...
The role that design by contract plays in the specification, monitoring, and reuse of classes is of increasing importance in the OO community. Although recognizably useful, neverth...
The maintenance of organisation is a prerequisite for all viable systems in dynamic environments. In many living systems this organisation is, in part, achieved through coordinati...
Intelligent software agents (agents) adhering to the action selection paradigm have only one primary task that they need accomplish at any given time: to choose their next action....
Ryan James McCall, Stan Franklin, David Friedlande...