Whenever independent, non-cooperative actors jointly have to solve a complex task, they need to coordinate their efforts. Typical examples of such task coordination problems are s...
Many important industrial applications rely on data mining methods to uncover patterns and trends in large data warehouse environments. Since a data warehouse is typically updated...
— It has been demonstrated in a number of robotic areas how the use of virtual fixtures improves task performance both in terms of execution time and overall precision, [1]. How...
Today, the amount of main memory in mid-range servers is pushing practical limits with as much as 192 GB memory in a 24 processor system [21]. Further, with the onset of multi-thr...
One aspect of rational behavior is that agents can pursue multiple goals in parallel. Current BDI theory and systems do not provide a theoretical or architectural framework for de...
Alexander Pokahr, Lars Braubach, Winfried Lamersdo...