Efficient coordination among large numbers of heterogeneous agents promises to
revolutionize the way in which some complex tasks, such as responding to urban disasters …

Decentralized systems have emerged as an alternative to centralized approaches for
dealing with dynamic requirements in new business models. These systems should provide …

Life on this planet is full of astonishing examples of cooperation. Individual species depend
upon one another for sustenance, often forming surprising alliances to achieve a common …

Large numbers of heterogeneous sensors the collect and fuse information in dynamic
environments are envisioned in domains, such as military operations, disaster response or …

RESUMO O compartilhamento da informação e a construção do conhecimento nas redes,
que permeiam o consórcio de exportação de móveis–Conex–, foram estudados tendo-se …

Individual robots or agents will often need to form coalitions to accomplish shared tasks, eg,
in sensor networks or markets. Furthermore, in most real systems it is infeasible for entities to …

Coordination of large groups of agents or robots is starting to reach a level of maturity where
prototype systems can be built and tested in realistic environments. These more realistic …

Enabling interactions of agent-teams and humans is a critical area of research, with
encouraging progress in the past few years. However, previous work suffers from three key …

As a paradigm for coordinating cooperative agents in dynamic environments, teamwork has
been shown to be capable of leading to flexible and robust behavior. However, when …

We have developed probabilistic algorithms that leverage the associates network for
distributed plan instantiation, role allocation, information sharing and adjustable autonomy …