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CDC
2008
IEEE
123views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
On distributed averaging algorithms and quantization effects
—We consider distributed iterative algorithms for the averaging problem over time-varying topologies. Our focus is on the convergence time of such algorithms when complete (unqua...
Angelia Nedic, Alexander Olshevsky, Asuman E. Ozda...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
ANEMONE: an effective minimal ontology negotiation environment
Communication in open heterogeneous multi agent systems is hampered by lack of shared ontologies. To overcome these problems, we propose a layered communication protocol which inc...
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert-Jan Beun, Frank Dig...
AGENTS
2000
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Experimental assessment of the effectiveness of synthetic personae for multi-modal e-retail applications
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...
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IROS
2009
IEEE
132views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
15 years 8 months ago
Segregation in swarms of mobile robots based on the Brazil nut effect
— We study a simple algorithm inspired by the Brazil nut effect for achieving segregation in a swarm of mobile robots. The algorithm lets each robot mimic a particle of a certain...
Roderich Groß, Stéphane Magnenat, Fra...
ICC
2008
IEEE
137views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
On the Effect of Localization Errors on Geographic Routing in Sensor Networks
—Recently, network localization systems that are based on inter-node ranges have received significant attention. Geographic routing has been considered an application which can u...
Bo Peng, Rainer Mautz, Andrew H. Kemp, Washington ...