Auctions are promising decentralized methods for teams of agents to allocate and re-allocate tasks among themselves in dynamic, partially known and time-constrained domains with p...
Hermes is a middleware system for design and execution of activity-based applications in distributed environments. It supports mobile computation as an application implementation s...
The ability to respond sensibly to changing and conflicting beliefs is an integral part of intelligent agency. To this end, we outline the design and implementation of a Distribute...
Benedita Malheiro, Nicholas R. Jennings, Eugenio O...
The use of digital pheromones for controlling and coordinating swarms of unmanned vehicles is studied under various conditions to determine their effectiveness in multiple militar...
John A. Sauter, Robert S. Matthews, H. Van Dyke Pa...
We present a new formulation of distributed task assignment, called Generalized Mutual Assignment Problem (GMAP), which is derived from an NP-hard combinatorial optimization probl...