Many real-world tasks can be decomposed into pipelines of sequential operations (where subtasks may themselves be composed of one or more pipelines). JGram is a framework enabling...
Rahul Sukthankar, Antoine Brusseau, Ray Pelletier,...
This paper presents a novel approach to design and develop an assembly and execution shell for multiagent applications based on the concept of a mission. A mission is a live evolv...
Glenn T. Jayaputera, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Seng Wai...
This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
We consider the problem of distributed task allocation across swarm units comprising a swarm-based system. We model task allocation as a dynamic pricing problem within a market se...