In this paper, we discuss two major tradeoffs, spatial and temporal tradeoffs, that appear when applying marketbased computing to multimedia network applications. The former appea...
Modularity and symmetry are two properties observed in almost every engineering and biological structure. The origin of these properties in nature is still unknown. Yet, as engine...
This paper begins by reviewing different methods of automatic programming while emphasizing the technique of Ant Programming (AP). AP uses an ant foraging metaphor in which ants g...
We propose distributed algorithms to automatically deploy a group of mobile robots to partition and provide coverage of a non-convex environment. To handle arbitrary nonconvex envi...
Joseph W. Durham, Ruggero Carli, Paolo Frasca, Fra...
The models used in social simulation to date have mostly been very simplistic cognitively, with little attention paid to the details of individual cognition. This work proposes a ...