For self-organising emergent solutions, there is no support to explicitly design system-wide information flows and feedback loops in those flows. This is problematic because the...
The future mass deployment of pervasive and dense sensor network infrastructures calls for proper mechanisms to enable extracting general-purpose data from them at limited costs a...
Robots in a swarm construction system need to be able to find their way to all potential places to add material to a structure. In two dimensions, a (trivial) procedure exists fo...
Grid and ubiquitous computing systems generally consist of a large number of networked nodes with applications implemented as distributed services or processes, respectively. A cr...
Wolfgang Trumler, Andreas Pietzowski, Benjamin Sat...
In current information systems, information is passive. People act upon it, either sending it to known destinations or pulling it from known sources. InformANTS makes information ...
Rainer Hilscher, Sven Brueckner, Theodore C. Beldi...