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Beliefs inform the behaviour of forward-thinking agents in complex environments. Recently, sequential Bayesian inference has emerged as a mechanism to study belief formation among agents adapting to dynamical conditions. However, we lack critical theory to ...

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Human-Robot Swarm Interaction: An Explorative Path to Foster Complex Systems Understanding

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Order, regularities, and patterns are ubiquitous around us. A flock of birds maneuvering in the sky, the self-organization of social insects, a global pandemic or a traffic jam are examples of complex systems where the macroscopic patterns arise from the m ...

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A multi-agent system consists of a collection of decision-making or learning agents subjected to streaming observations from some real-world phenomenon. The goal of the system is to solve some global learning or optimization problem in a distributed or dec ...

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Analysis of Dampers in Time-Sensitive Networks With Non-Ideal Clocks

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Dampers are devices that reduce delay jitter in the context of time-sensitive networks, by delaying packets for the amount written in packet headers. Jitter reduction is required by some real-time applications; beyond this, dampers have the potential to so ...

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Aerial robot swarms have the potential to perform time-critical and dangerous tasks such as disaster response without compromising human safety. However, their reliance on external infrastructure such as global positioning for localization and wireless net ...

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Vision-based Drone Flocking in Outdoor Environments

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Tenants’ residential mobility in Switzerland: the role of housing functions

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The interaction between residential preferences and dwellings is a complex system whose function thus far remains insufficiently explored. In this paper, we investigate housing functions as orchestrators of households’ residential mobility in the context o ...

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On Consensusability of Linear Interconnected Multi-Agent Systems and Simultaneous Stabilization

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Mustafa Sahin Turan, Liang Xu

Consensusability of multi-agent systems (MASs) certifies the existence of a distributed controller capable of driving the states of each subsystem to a consensus value. We study the consensusability of linear interconnected MASs (LIMASs) where, as in sever ...

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Adaptation And Learning In Multi-Task Decision Systems

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Adaptation and learning over multi-agent networks is a topic of great relevance with important implications. Elaborating on previous works on single-task networks engaged in decision problems, here we consider the multi-task version in the challenging scen ...

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An agent-based model framework for understanding the decisions of households and exploring bottom-up effects on housing sustainability

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Housing plays a crucial role in the transition towards sustainability. Zero-energy or low-carbon housing solutions are key, but their success depends on their acceptance by the users. We propose a conceptual and an operational framework for understanding h ...

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Reliability Mechanisms for Controllers in Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems

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Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are real-world processes that are controlled by computer algorithms. We consider CPSs where a centralized, software-based controller maintains the process in a desired state by exchanging measurements and setpoints with proces ...

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Analysis of EEG Correlates of Perceived Difficulty in Dynamically Changing Flying Tasks

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Hybrid, Job-Aware, and Preemptive Datacenter Scheduling

Pamela Isabel Delgado Borda

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Bridging the gap between dataplanes and commodity operating systems

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Trusted Registration, Negotiation, and Service Evaluation in Multi-Agent Systems throughout the Blockchain Technology

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Some recent trends in distributed intelligent systems rely extensively on agent-based approaches. The so-called Multi Agent Systems (MAS) are taking over the management of sensitive data on behalf of their producers and users (e.g., medical records, financ ...

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Tomography Of Adaptive Multi-Agent Networks Under Limited Observation

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This work studies the problem of inferring from streaming data whether an agent is directly influenced by another agent over an adaptive network of interacting agents. Agent i influences agent j if they are connected, and if agent j uses the information fr ...

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Near-optimal Deployment of Dataflow Applications on Many-core Platforms with Real-time Guarantees

Alena Simalatsar, Stefanos Skalistis

Safe and optimal deployment of data-streaming applications on many-core platforms requires the realistic estimation of task Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET). On the other hand, task WCET depends on the deployment solution, due to the varying number of inte ...

IEEE2017

T-RECS: A Software Testbed for Multi-Agent Real-Time Control of Electric Grids

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin, Wajeb Saab, Roman Rudnik, Jagdish Prasad Achara

Multiple software agents can be used to perform the real-time control of electrical grids. The control performance of such solutions is influenced by software non-idealities such as crashes and delays of the software agents, and message losses and delays d ...

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