Increasingly, applications need to be able to self-reconfigure in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a means...
Andres J. Ramirez, David B. Knoester, Betty H. C. ...
Truly ubiquitous computing poses new and significant challenges. A huge number of heterogeneous devices will interact to perform complex distributed tasks. One of the key aspects...
Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Andrea Prati, Rita C...
In a future networked physical world, a myriad of smart sensors and actuators assess and control aspects of their environments and autonomously act in response to it. Examples ran...
—Epidemic-based communications, or “gossiping”, provides a robust and scalable method for maintaining a knowledge base in a sensor network faced with an unpredictable network...
Graham Williamson, Davide Cellai, Simon A. Dobson,...
Abstract. Motivated by the need for agent classification in sensor networking and autonomous vehicle control applications, we propose a flexible and distributed stochastic automato...