At any given time, the stability of a community depends on the right balance of trust and distrust. Furthermore, we face information overload, increased uncertainty and risk takin...
Conventions are necessary to establish in any recurrent cooperative arrangement. In electronic work, they are important so as to regulate the use of shared objects. Based on empir...
In real world applications, agents - be they software agents or autonomous robots - inevitably face erroneous situations that have not been planned for. Re-planning can sometimes ...
Robert J. Ross, Rem W. Collier, Gregory M. P. O'Ha...
—Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is increasingly being applied to optimisation of problems in engineering design and scientific investigation. While readily adapted to singleo...
This paper describes conceptionof social robot systemas self-organizing system. Distributed autonomousrobot systemis not autonomousas a group, if the systemtotally depends on the ...