A new operating paradigm is still needed for the power industry in order to achieve a workable deregulated market. The two main proposals, namely the Bilateral and the Poolco mode...
This paper presents a distributed application named AERIAL which allows coordination and control of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) engaged in temporally constrained miss...
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) provides a rich framework for modeling multi-agent coordination problems. Existing problem domains for DCOP focus on small (<100 vari...
In this paper we report an ethnographic study of workarounds--informal temporary practices for handling exceptions to normal workflow--in a hospital environment. Workarounds are a...
Marina Kobayashi, Susan R. Fussell, Yan Xiao, F. J...
Middleware development in the growing and promising field of sensor networks is a major challenge in order to facilitate the programmer task and bridge the gap between the applic...