In cooperative multiagent systems an alternative that maximizes the social welfare--the sum of utilities--can only be selected if each agent reports its full utility function. Thi...
Abstract. This paper introduces the RoboCast communication abstraction. The RoboCast allows a swarm of non oblivious, anonymous robots that are only endowed with visibility sensors...
Zohir Bouzid, Shlomi Dolev, Maria Potop-Butucaru, ...
Pict project. We define two levels of abstraction as calculi with precise semantics: a low-level Nomadic π calculus with migration and location-dependent communication, and a hig...
Peter Sewell, Pawel T. Wojciechowski, Asis Unyapot...
Underwater acoustic communications systems are challenged by the characteristics of acoustic propagation through the underwater environment. There are a wide range of physical pro...
The elicitation or communication of user requirements comprises an early and critical but highly error-prone stage in system development. Socially-oriented methodologies provide m...