Agricultural mechanization is an area of knowledge that has evolved a lot over the past
century, its main actors being agricultural tractors that, in 100 years, have increased their …

Self-organised emergent patterns can be widely seen in natural and man-made complex
systems generated by interactions among local components without external or global …

The ability to collectively choose the best among a finite set of alternatives is a fundamental
cognitive skill for robot swarms. In this paper, we propose a formal definition of the best-of-n …

The first edition of this popular textbook, Contemporary Artificial Intelligence, provided an
accessible and student friendly introduction to AI. This fully revised and expanded update …

Autonomous vehicles have been highlighted as a major growth area for future transportation
systems and the deployment of large numbers of these vehicles is expected when safety …

Stigmergy is a form of indirect communication and coordination in which individuals
influence their peers by modifying the environment in various ways, including rearranging …

Robot swarms mimic natural systems in which collective abilities emerge from the interaction
of individuals. So far, the swarm robotics literature has focused on the emergence of …

Collective decision-making is a process whereby the members of a group decide on a
course of action by consensus. In this paper, we propose a collective decision-making …

Pheromones are chemical substances released into the environment by an individual
animal, which elicit stereotyped behaviours widely found across the animal kingdom …

In this paper, we propose a collective decision-making method for swarms of robots. The
method enables a robot swarm to select, from a set of possible actions, the one that has the …