The concept of microgrid has emerged as a feasible answer to cope with the increasing
number of distributed renewable energy sources which are being introduced into the …

Agent-based computing is a promising approach for develo** applications in complex
domains. However, despite the great deal of research in the area, a number of challenges …

Systems composed of interacting autonomous agents offer a promising software
engineering approach for develo** applications in complex domains. However, this …

Autonomic communications seek to improve the ability of network and services to cope with
unpredicted change, including changes in topology, load, task, the physical and logical …

In past decades, significant attention has been devoted to the task allocation and load
balancing in distributed systems. Although there have been some related surveys about this …

We present some properties of trust establishment in mobile, ad-hoc networks and illustrate
how they differ from those of trust establishment in the Internet. We motivate these …

Natural self-organising systems function without central control and operate based on
contextual local interactions. The particularity of self-organised systems is their capacity to …

Abstract Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are characterized by decentralized control, large-scale
and extreme dynamism of their environment. Develo** applications that can cope with …

We present a method for estimating a person's head pose with a stereo camera. Our
approach focuses on the application of human-robot interaction, where people may be …

NeuroGrid is an adaptive decentralized search system. NeuroGrid nodes support distributed
search through semantic routing (forwarding of queries based on content), and a learning …