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2007
ACM
14 years 14 days ago
A field study of community bar: (mis)-matches between theory and practice
Community Bar (CB) is groupware supporting informal awareness and casual interaction. CB's design was derived from three sources: prior empirical research findings concerning...
Natalia A. Romero, Gregor McEwan, Saul Greenberg
VTC
2007
IEEE
132views Communications» more  VTC 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Collaborative Information Revelation and Collusion in "Word-of-Mouth" Access Selection Schemes
— “Word-of-Mouth”, a novel scheme for sharing the service quality experienced with different local networks, is presented and evaluated as a distributed solution for performi...
Pietro Lungaro
IJCAI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Memory Bounds in a Distributed Resource Allocation Mechanism
Multiagent distributed resource allocation requires that agents act on limited, localized information with minimum communication overhead in order to optimize the distribution of ...
Ricardo M. Araujo, Luís C. Lamb
SAB
2004
Springer
198views Optimization» more  SAB 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
A Review of Probabilistic Macroscopic Models for Swarm Robotic Systems
Abstract. In this paper, we review methods used for macroscopic modeling and analyzing collective behavior of swarm robotic systems. Although the behavior of an individual robot in...
Kristina Lerman, Alcherio Martinoli, Aram Galstyan
ROBOCOMM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Autonomous navigation of wireless robot swarms with covert leaders
— The integration of advanced computation, wireless communication, and control technologies has facilitated the creation of autonomous robot swarms for many civil and military ap...
Xiaofeng Han, Louis F. Rossi, Chien-Chung Shen