: Collaborative learning environments require carefully crafted designs –both technical and social. This paper presents a model describing how to design socio-technical environme...
In this paper, we present discrete-time, nonspatial, macroscopic models able to capture the dynamics of collective aggregation experiments using groups of embodied agents endowed ...
William Agassounon, Alcherio Martinoli, Kjerstin E...
The paper addresses the problem of the construction and management of highly available services in large, open distributed systems. A novel replication protocol is proposed to sat...
s LEXSYS, (Legume Expert System) was a project conceived at IITA (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture) Ibadan Nigeria. It was initiated by the COMBS (Collaborative Grou...
This paper proposes a way to enable approximate queries in a peer-to-peer network by using a special encoding function and error correcting codes. The encoding function maintains ...
Alain Mowat, Roman Schmidt, Michael Schumacher, Io...