— Advanced communication technologies enable strangers to work together on the same tasks or projects in virtual environments. Understanding the formation of taskoriented groups ...
Gossip-based information dissemination protocols are considered easy to deploy, scalable and resilient to network dynamics. They are also considered highly flexible, namely tunab...
The force-update-rate requirements of transparent rendering of virtual environments are in conflict with the computational cost required for computing complex interactions betwee...
—High level conceptual thought seems to be at the basis of the impressive human cognitive ability. Classical topdown (Logic based) and bottom-up (Connectionist) approaches to the...
—“Autonomic systems” merge advancements in the field of multi-agent software design, dynamic analysis, and decentralized control in order to assist designers in constructing...