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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Cooperative manipulation on the water using a swarm of autonomous tugboats
— In this paper we present a strategy that allows a swarm of autonomous tugboats to cooperatively move a large object on the water. The two main challenges are: (1) the actuators...
Joel M. Esposito, Matthew Feemster, Erik Smith
ROBOCUP
1998
Springer
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13 years 12 months ago
The CMTrio-98 Sony-Legged Robot Team
Sony has provided a remarkable platform for research and development in robotic agents, namely fully autonomous legged robots. In this paper, we describe our work using Sony's...
Manuela M. Veloso, William T. B. Uther
SASO
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Autonomic Request Management Algorithms for Geographically Distributed Internet-Based Systems
Supporting Web-based services through geographical distributed clusters of servers is a common solution to the increasing volume and variability of modern traffic. These architec...
Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni
UAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Cooperative Negotiation in Autonomic Systems using Incremental Utility Elicitation
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,...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Outperforming the competition in multi-unit sealed bid auctions
In this paper, we examine the behavior of bidding agents that are in direct competition with the other participants in an auction setting. Thus the agents are not simply trying to...
Ioannis A. Vetsikas, Nicholas R. Jennings