The dramatic growth of computer networks creates both an opportunity and a daunting distributed computing problem for users seeking to build applications that can configure themse...
Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse, James Kauf...
This paper addresses the problem of self localization of mobile devices. In particular, each device combines noisy measurements of its absolute position with distance measurements...
Modular robots are systems composed of a number of independent units that can be reconfigured to fit the task at hand. When the modules are computationally independent, they for...
Zack J. Butler, Robert Fitch, Daniela Rus, Yuhang ...
Transferring the traditional business model for selling digital goods linked to physical media to the online world leads to the need for a system to protect digital intellectual p...
Qiong Liu, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Nicholas Paul Sh...
In this paper we address the problem of coordination in multi-agent sequential decision problems with infinite statespaces. We adopt a game theoretic formalism to describe the int...