This paper presents an analysis of static and dynamic organizational structures for naturally distributed, homogeneous, cooperative problem solving environments, exemplified by di...
Autosophy, an emerging new science, explains "Self-assembling Structures", such crystals or living trees, in mathematical terms. This research provides a new mathematica...
We consider the problem faced by a mobile robot that has to reach a given target by traveling through an unmapped region in the plane containing oriented rectangular obstacles. We...
Piotr Berman, Avrim Blum, Amos Fiat, Howard J. Kar...
Several Software Architecture Design Methods (SADM) have been published, reviewed, and compared. But these surveys and comparisons are mostly centered on intrinsic elements of the...
Davide Falessi, Giovanni Cantone, Philippe Kruchte...
Abstract. Social conventions are useful self-sustaining protocols for groups to coordinate behavior without a centralized entity enforcing coordination. The emergence of such conve...