Building open distributed systems is an even more challenging task than building distributed systems, as their components are loosely synchronised, can move, become disconnected, ...
Abstract—Network controllers (NCs) are devices that are capable of converting dynamic, spatially extended, and functionally specialized modules into a taskable goal-oriented grou...
Rachana Ashok Gupta, Ahmad A. Masoud, Mo-Yuen Chow
— Exploratory activities seem to be crucial for our cognitive development. According to psychologists, exploration is an intrinsically rewarding behaviour. The developmental robo...
This paper describes an autonomous robot system designed to solve the challenging task of geocaching. Geocaching involves locating a goal object in an outdoor environment given on...
James Neufeld, Michael Sokolsky, Jason Roberts, Ad...
From the World Wide Web to supply chains and scientific simulations, distributed systems are a widely used and important approach to building computational systems. Tracking prov...