— Autonomous navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be achieved with a reactive system which allows the robot to overcome all the unexpected changes in its environmen...
This paper describes the development of a multi-robot system for Area Reduction in Humanitarian Demining. In spite of the specific requirements imposed to the work being carried ...
Complex systems researchers have looked to the Internet as a possible source of interesting emergent behaviour. Indeed, some high profile failures, and some low level phenomena, m...
It is recognized in Ambient Intelligence that ambient devices should be modeled as intelligent autonomous components rather than passive information sources. The agent paradigm sui...
In this paper we discuss the separation between attributes on functionality and on structure following an approach based on Model Driven Engineering (MDE). We adopt a methodologic...