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CDC
2008
IEEE
123views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
16 years 16 days ago
On distributed averaging algorithms and quantization effects
—We consider distributed iterative algorithms for the averaging problem over time-varying topologies. Our focus is on the convergence time of such algorithms when complete (unqua...
Angelia Nedic, Alexander Olshevsky, Asuman E. Ozda...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
ANEMONE: an effective minimal ontology negotiation environment
Communication in open heterogeneous multi agent systems is hampered by lack of shared ontologies. To overcome these problems, we propose a layered communication protocol which inc...
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert-Jan Beun, Frank Dig...
AGENTS
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Experimental assessment of the effectiveness of synthetic personae for multi-modal e-retail applications
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...
IROS
2009
IEEE
132views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
16 years 21 days ago
Segregation in swarms of mobile robots based on the Brazil nut effect
— We study a simple algorithm inspired by the Brazil nut effect for achieving segregation in a swarm of mobile robots. The algorithm lets each robot mimic a particle of a certain...
Roderich Groß, Stéphane Magnenat, Fra...
ICC
2008
IEEE
137views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
16 years 15 days ago
On the Effect of Localization Errors on Geographic Routing in Sensor Networks
—Recently, network localization systems that are based on inter-node ranges have received significant attention. Geographic routing has been considered an application which can u...
Bo Peng, Rainer Mautz, Andrew H. Kemp, Washington ...