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VRML
1999
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
An Open Virtual Environment for Autonomous Agents Using VRML and Java
We describe a VRML/Java-based virtual environment that is populated with heterogeneous articulated agents. In this simulated environment, agents compete for collecting certain obj...
Bernhard Jung, Jan-Torsten Milde
MAGS
2008
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14 years 10 months ago
Retractable contract network for empowerment in workforce scheduling
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Longitudinal study of a building-scale RFID ecosystem
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) deployments are becoming increasingly popular in both industrial and consumer-oriented settings. To effectively exploit and operate such depl...
Evan Welbourne, Karl Koscher, Emad Soroush, Magdal...
GIS
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
ASPEN: an adaptive spatial peer-to-peer network
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly managing very large sets of data and hence a centralized data repository may not always provide the most scalable solution. H...
Haojun Wang, Roger Zimmermann, Wei-Shinn Ku
IROS
2009
IEEE
149views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Field trial of networked social robots in a shopping mall
—This paper reports the challenges of developing multiple social robots that operate in a shopping mall. We developed a networked robot system that coordinates multiple social ro...
Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Sa...