— We study minimalism in sensing and control by considering a multi-agent system in which each agent moves like a Dubins car and has a limited sensor that reports only the presen...
We adopt the decision-theoretic principle of expected utility maximization as a paradigm for designing autonomous rational agents, and present a framework that uses this paradigm t...
Distributed information systems for decision-support, logistics, and e-commerce involve coordination of autonomous information resources and clients according to specific domain in...
This paper describes STL, a new coordination model and corresponding language. STL's power and expressiveness are shown through a preliminary distributed implementation of a ...
Oliver Krone, Fabrice Chantemargue, Thierry Dagaef...
The goal of autonomic computing is to create computing systems capable of managing themselves to a far greater extent than they do today. This paper presents Unity, a decentralize...
Gerald Tesauro, David M. Chess, William E. Walsh, ...