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TSMC
2010
13 years 5 months ago
A Biologically Inspired Sensor Wakeup Control Method for Wireless Sensor Networks
-- This paper presents an artificial ant-colony approach to distributed sensor wakeup control in wireless sensor networks (WSN) to accomplish the joint task of surveillance and tar...
Yan Liang, Jiannong Cao, Lei Zhang 0006, Rui Wang,...
TCS
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Analyzing the dynamics of stigmergetic interactions through pheromone games
The concept of stigmergy provides a simple framework for interaction and coordination in multi-agent systems. However, determining the global system behavior that will arise from ...
Peter Vrancx, Katja Verbeeck, Ann Nowé
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Collaborative foraging using beacons
A classic example of multiagent coordination in a shared environment involves the use of pheromone deposits as a communication mechanism. Due to physical limitations in deploying ...
Brian Hrolenok, Sean Luke, Keith Sullivan, Christo...
ANTSW
2008
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
The Small World of Pheromone Trails
In this paper we consider MAX
Paola Pellegrini, Andrea Ellero
ANTSW
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Covering a Continuous Domain by Distributed, Limited Robots
We present an algorithm for covering continuous domains by primitive robots whose only ability is to mark visited places with pheromone and to sense the level of the pheromone in t...
Eliyahu Osherovich, Alfred M. Bruckstein, Vladimir...
ASIAN
1999
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Ant Colony Optimization for the Ship Berthing Problem
Abstract. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a paradigm that employs a set of cooperating agents to solve functions or obtain good solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. ...
Chia Jim Tong, Hoong Chuin Lau, Andrew Lim
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Performance of digital pheromones for swarming vehicle control
The use of digital pheromones for controlling and coordinating swarms of unmanned vehicles is studied under various conditions to determine their effectiveness in multiple militar...
John A. Sauter, Robert S. Matthews, H. Van Dyke Pa...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Pheromone model: application to traffic congestion prediction
Social insects such as ants and bees perform complex tasks with pheromone communication despite lack of top-down style control. We have examined applications of this pheromone par...
Osamu Masutani, Hiroshi Sasaki, Hirotoshi Iwasaki,...