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...
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...
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...
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...
—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...