Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks like Gnutella improve some shortcomings of Conventional Search Engines (CSE) such as centralized and outdated indexing by distributing the search engin...
Market-based mechanisms can be used to coordinate self-interested multi-robot systems in fully distributed environments, where by self-interested we mean that each robot agent att...
Abstract. Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) entities interacting locally with their environment cause cohere...
Carlos Fernandes, Vitorino Ramos, Agostinho C. Ros...
AMOS (Active Mediators Object System) is an architecture to model, locate, search, combine, update, and monitor data in information systems with many work stations connected using...
— In this note, we present initial results towards developing a distributed algorithm for repairing topological holes in the sensor cover of a mobile robot team. Central to our a...