Interactions between agents are traditionally specified as interaction protocols using notations such as Petri nets, AUML, or finite state machines. These protocols are a poor ...
Bio-inspired communication methodologies promise to enable more scalable self-organizing network infrastructures. Especially in the area of mobile ad hoc sensor networks, such sol...
In Ubiquitous computing small embedded sensor and computing nodes are the main enabling technologies. System programming for such small embedded systems is a challenging task invol...
All known life forms process information on a molecular level. This kind of chemical information processing is known to be robust, self-organizing, adaptive, decentralized, asynch...
Data fusion concepts are a necessary basis for utilizing complex networks of sensors. A key feature for a robust data fusion system is adaptivity, both to be fault-tolerant and to...