Abstract: Research in sociology studies the effectiveness of social networks in achieving computational tasks. Typically the agents who are supposed to achieve a task are unaware o...
Modern IT systems serve many different business processes on a shared infrastructure in parallel. The automatic request execution on the numerous interconnected components, hosted...
Smart environments consist of several interconnected devices. The device ensemble can change dynamically as mobile devices enter or leave the environment. To utilize such environm...
Conrad Thiede, Christian Tominski, Heidrun Schuman...
— This paper considers a network composed of robotic agents and static nodes performing spatial estimation of a dynamic physical processes. The physical process is modeled as a s...
— This paper presents a dynamic and distributed reconfiguration planning algorithm for chain-type selfreconfigurable robots, by which a robot can autonomously self-reconfigure fr...