Despite the availability of awareness servers and casual interaction systems, distributed groups still cannot maintain artifact awareness – the easy awareness of the documents, ...
This paper presents a robot search task (social tag) that uses social interaction, in the form of asking for help, as an integral component of task completion. We define socially...
Performance monitoring in most distributed systems provides minimal guidance for tuning, problem diagnosis, and decision making. Stardust is a monitoring infrastructure that repla...
Eno Thereska, Brandon Salmon, John D. Strunk, Matt...
We suggest a general paradigm of using large-scale distributed computation to solve difficult problems, but where humans can act as agents and provide candidate solutions. We are e...
Craig Gentry, Zulfikar Ramzan, Stuart G. Stubblebi...
This paper presents a distributed multi-robot system designed to solve a team-based search and destroy task. The project was divided into two phases. The initial phase was used to...
J. T. McClain, Bradley J. Wimpey, D. H. Barnhard, ...