Abstract. We present the “Peppercoin” method for processing micropayments efficiently. With this method, a fraction of the micropayments received are determined, via a procedur...
— Distributed computing systems are increasingly being created as self-organizing collections of many autonomous (human or software) agents cooperating as peers. Peer-to-peer coo...
Abstract. The maximum diversity problem (MDP) consists of identifying optimally diverse subsets of elements from some larger collection. The selection of elements is based on the d...
Geiza C. Silva, Luiz Satoru Ochi, Simone L. Martin...
We present methods for extracting optimal paths from motion planning roadmaps. Our system enables any combination of optimization criteria, such as collision detection, kinematic/...
— This paper addresses the problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for teams of collaborating vehicles where the communication bandwidth is limited. We present a ...
Eric Nettleton, Sebastian Thrun, Hugh F. Durrant-W...