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AGENTS
2000
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Hormone-based control for self-reconfigurable robots
Self-reconfigurable or metamorphic robots can change their individual and collective shape and size to meet operational demands. Since these robots are constructed from a set of a...
Wei-Min Shen, Yimin Lu, Peter M. Will
ESWA
2008
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14 years 10 months ago
An expert system for dynamic re-coordination of distributed workflows
A persistent problem in the use of automated workflow management systems for inter-organizational workflows has been the need for manual redefinition of coordination points in the...
William L. Kuechler Jr., Vijay K. Vaishnavi
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CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
When is social computation better than the sum of its parts?
good solutions to complex problems. In many examples, individuals trying to solve superior global solution. This suggests that there may be general principles of information aggre...
Vadas Gintautas, Aric A. Hagberg, Luís M. A...
ECAL
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT
A swarm-bot is a robotic entity built of several autonomous mobile robots (called s-bots) physically connected together. This form of collective robotics exploits robot interaction...
Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, André Gu...
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SBIA
1998
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Building Object-Agents from a Software Meta-Architecture
Multi-agent systems can be viewed as object-oriented systems in which their entities show an autonomous behavior. If objects could acquire such skill in a flexible way, agents coul...
Analía Amandi, Ana Price