— We introduce the concept of Ecology of Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems, or PEIS-Ecology. This is a network of heterogeneous robotic devices (PEIS) pervasively embedded ...
Mathias Broxvall, Marco Gritti, Alessandro Saffiot...
This paper describes in details the implementation of the ActiveCube system. ActiveCube allows users to construct and interact with 3D environments by using physical cubes as bi-di...
Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...
The free-rider phenomenon which impedes the marketing of information goods is conventionally countered by copyright protection regulations and technology. Alternative ways to mark...
This paper studies how audiences should be expressed in a Cyber- theater, in which remotely located persons can direct plays as directors, perform as performers and/or see the per...