One of the visions of pervasive computing is using mobile computers to interact with networked devices. A question raised by this vision is: Should the userinterfaces of these dev...
So far, the search for Opportunistic Network (ON) applications has focused on urban/rural scenarios where the combined use of mobility and the store-carry-and-forward paradigm hel...
This position paper proposes the use of an event-based dynamic AOP machine as an infrastructure for interactive development of high performance scientific software. Advice codes i...
Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...
Coordination within decentralized agent groups frequently requires reaching global consensus, but typical hierarchical approaches to reaching such decisions can be complex, slow, ...