We describe an environment for distributed computing that uses the concept of well-known paradigms. The main advantage of paradigmoriented distributed computing (PODC) is that the...
Hairong Kuang, Lubomir Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt...
—Emergent behavior is an essential feature in multi-agent systems and plays a significant role in the applications of agent technology. Because of the huge gap between individual...
COORDINATORs are coordination managers for fielded first responders. Each first response team is paired with a COORDINATOR coordination manager which is running on a mobile com...
Thomas Wagner, John Phelps, Valerie Guralnik, Ryan...
While interacting with other users in dynamic use contexts, one often aims at coordinating activities as events unfold. Such coordination can often be unplanned or impromptu. There...
Iyad Rahwan, Fernando Koch, Connor Graham, Anton K...
Consider the task of a mobile robot autonomously navigating through an environment while detecting and mapping objects of interest using a noisy object detector. The robot must re...