Researchers in the eld of Distributed Arti cial Intelligence (DAI) have been developing e cient mechanisms to coordinate the activities of multiple autonomous agents. The need for...
Stigmergy (the coordination of agents through signs they make and sense in a shared environment) was originally articulated in the study of social insects. Its basic processes are ...
Advanced manufacturing environments nowadays involve a number of cooperating heterogeneous nodes, where each node supports a distinct activity, and their joint efforts and informa...
Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Ammar Benabdelkader, Louis O....
Most current theories about collective cognitive activities in limited groups apply to structurally closed co-operative situations Here we propose to work in the framework of inte...
Computer science and engineering nowadays appears to be challenged (and driven) by technological progress and quantitative growth. Among the technological progress challenges are ...