Download or read book Coordination Structures for the Intelligent Control of Dynamic Distributed Systems written by Steven Nicolas Willmott and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coordination Control of Distributed Systems written by Jan H. van Schuppen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how control of distributed systems can be advanced by an integration of control, communication, and computation. The global control objectives are met by judicious combinations of local and nonlocal observations taking advantage of various forms of communication exchanges between distributed controllers. Control architectures are considered according to increasing degrees of cooperation of local controllers: fully distributed or decentralized control, control with communication between controllers, coordination control, and multilevel control. The book covers also topics bridging computer science, communication, and control, like communication for control of networks, average consensus for distributed systems, and modeling and verification of discrete and of hybrid systems. Examples and case studies are introduced in the first part of the text and developed throughout the book. They include: control of underwater vehicles, automated-guided vehicles on a container terminal, control of a printer as a complex machine, and control of an electric power system. The book is composed of short essays each within eight pages, including suggestions and references for further research and reading. By reading the essays collected in the book Coordination Control of Distributed Systems, graduate students and post-docs will be introduced to the research frontiers in control of decentralized and of distributed systems. Control theorists and practitioners with backgrounds in electrical, mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering will find in the book information and inspiration to transfer to their fields of interest the state-of-art in coordination control.
Download or read book Distributed Intelligent Systems written by Abdellah Bedrouni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed Intelligent Systems: A Coordination Perspective comprehensively answers commonly asked questions about coordination in agent-oriented distributed systems. Characterizing the state-of-the-art research in the field of coordination with regard to the development of distributed agent-oriented systems is a particularly complex endeavour; while existing books deal with specific aspects of coordination, the major contribution of this book lies in the attempt to provide an in-depth review covering a wide range of issues regarding multi-agent coordination in Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Key features: Unveils the lack of coherence and order that characterizes the area of research pertaining to coordination of distributed intelligent systems Examines coordination models, frameworks, strategies and techniques to enable the development of distributed intelligent agent-oriented systems Provides specific recommendations to realize more widespread deployment of agent-based systems
Download or read book Distributed Intelligent Systems written by Abdellah Bedrouni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed Intelligent Systems: A Coordination Perspective comprehensively answers commonly asked questions about coordination in agent-oriented distributed systems. Characterizing the state-of-the-art research in the field of coordination with regard to the development of distributed agent-oriented systems is a particularly complex endeavour; while existing books deal with specific aspects of coordination, the major contribution of this book lies in the attempt to provide an in-depth review covering a wide range of issues regarding multi-agent coordination in Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Key features: Unveils the lack of coherence and order that characterizes the area of research pertaining to coordination of distributed intelligent systems Examines coordination models, frameworks, strategies and techniques to enable the development of distributed intelligent agent-oriented systems Provides specific recommendations to realize more widespread deployment of agent-based systems
Download or read book Internet Process Coordination written by Dan C. Marinescu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-10-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers collected here, from a December 2001 workshop held at the University of Central Florida, examine topics related to process coordination and ubiquitous computing. Papers on coordination models discuss areas such as space-based coordination and open distributed systems, global virtual data structures, models of coordination and Web-based systems, and a coordination model for secure collaboration. Material on grid coordination examines the complexity of scheduling and coordination on computational grids, programming the grid with distributed objects, data sharing through virtual file systems, and dynamic data-driven application systems. Papers on intelligent coordination and ubiquitous computing look at terraforming cyberspace, thin middleware, and Internet security. There is no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence written by Alan H. Bond and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most artificial intelligence research investigates intelligent behavior for a single agent--solving problems heuristically, understanding natural language, and so on. Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is concerned with coordinated intelligent behavior: intelligent agents coordinating their knowledge, skills, and plans to act or solve problems, working toward a single goal, or toward separate, individual goals that interact. DAI provides intellectual insights about organization, interaction, and problem solving among intelligent agents. This comprehensive collection of articles shows the breadth and depth of DAI research. The selected information is relevant to emerging DAI technologies as well as to practical problems in artificial intelligence, distributed computing systems, and human-computer interaction. "Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence" proposes a framework for understanding the problems and possibilities of DAI. It divides the study into three realms: the natural systems approach (emulating strategies and representations people use to coordinate their activities), the engineering/science perspective (building automated, coordinated problem solvers for specific applications), and a third, hybrid approach that is useful in analyzing and developing mixed collections of machines and human agents working together. The editors introduce the volume with an important survey of the motivations, research, and results of work in DAI. This historical and conceptual overview combines with chapter introductions to guide the reader through this fascinating field. A unique and extensive bibliography is also provided.
Download or read book Controllability Identification and Randomness in Distributed Systems written by Marzieh Nabi-Abdolyousefi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary thesis involves the design and analysis of coordination algorithms on networks, identification of dynamic networks and estimation on networks with random geometries with implications for networks that support the operation of dynamic systems, e.g., formations of robotic vehicles, distributed estimation via sensor networks. The results have ramifications for fault detection and isolation of large-scale networked systems and optimization models and algorithms for next generation aircraft power systems. The author finds novel applications of the methodology in energy systems, such as residential and industrial smart energy management systems.
Download or read book Distributed Intelligent Systems written by Abdellah Bedrouni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed Intelligent Systems: A Coordination Perspective comprehensively answers commonly asked questions about coordination in agent-oriented distributed systems. Characterizing the state-of-the-art research in the field of coordination with regard to the development of distributed agent-oriented systems is a particularly complex endeavour; while existing books deal with specific aspects of coordination, the major contribution of this book lies in the attempt to provide an in-depth review covering a wide range of issues regarding multi-agent coordination in Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Key features: Unveils the lack of coherence and order that characterizes the area of research pertaining to coordination of distributed intelligent systems Examines coordination models, frameworks, strategies and techniques to enable the development of distributed intelligent agent-oriented systems Provides specific recommendations to realize more widespread deployment of agent-based systems
Download or read book Intelligent Control for Future Autonomous Distributed Sensor Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key distributed coordination and control technologies needed for future deployable autonomous distributed systems were investigated. Specific tasks accomplished include: 1) identification and exploration of alternative distributed intelligent system architectures, methods for distributed data fusion, control, and coordination, and strategies that will increase the ability of the field to survive attacks, failures, and accidents, 2) development of new intelligent software agents that facilitate distributed coordination and control, and 3) creation of computer simulations for developing and testing alternative algorithms, considering tradeoffs, and evaluating the ability of the distributed system to achieve its goals when presented with a set of operational challenges. This approach allowed design alternatives to be explored, allowed trade-offs to be exposed, provided insight into the parameters that impact overall system performance, and facilitated the identification of requirements for further development.
Download or read book Distributed Coordination of Multi agent Networks written by Wei Ren and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks introduces problems, models, and issues such as collective periodic motion coordination, collective tracking with a dynamic leader, and containment control with multiple leaders, and explores ideas for their solution. Solving these problems extends the existing application domains of multi-agent networks; for example, collective periodic motion coordination is appropriate for applications involving repetitive movements, collective tracking guarantees tracking of a dynamic leader by multiple followers in the presence of reduced interaction and partial measurements, and containment control enables maneuvering of multiple followers by multiple leaders.
Download or read book Intelligent Control Systems written by IEEE Neural Networks Council and published by Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE). This book was released on 1996 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reconfigurable Distributed Control written by hector benitez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative monograph helps meet the challenge of applying distributed control to dynamical systems. It shows readers how to bring the best parts of various control paradigms to bear in making distributed control more flexible and responsive.
Download or read book Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering Theory and Practice written by Yanwen Wu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 1101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume includes a set of selected papers extended and revised from the I2009 Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2009) was held on December 19~ 20, 2009, Shenzhen, China. Volume 1 is to provide a forum for researchers, educators, engineers, and government officials involved in the general areas of Computer and Software Engineering to disseminate their latest research results and exchange views on the future research directions of these fields. 140 high-quality papers are included in the volume. Each paper has been peer-reviewed by at least 2 program committee members and selected by the volume editor Prof. Yanwen Wu. On behalf of this volume, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to all of authors and referees for their efforts reviewing the papers. Hoping you can find lots of profound research ideas and results on the related fields of Computer and Software Engineering.
Download or read book Coordination of Distributed Problem Solvers written by Edmund H. Durfee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As artificial intelligence (AI) is applied to more complex problems and a wider set of applications, the ability to take advantage of the computational power of distributed and parallel hardware architectures and to match these architec tures with the inherent distributed aspects of applications (spatial, functional, or temporal) has become an important research issue. Out of these research concerns, an AI subdiscipline called distributed problem solving has emerged. Distributed problem-solving systems are broadly defined as loosely-coupled, distributed networks of semi-autonomous problem-solving agents that perform sophisticated problem solving and cooperatively interact to solve problems. N odes operate asynchronously and in parallel with limited internode commu nication. Limited internode communication stems from either inherent band width limitations of the communication medium or from the high computa tional cost of packaging and assimilating information to be sent and received among agents. Structuring network problem solving to deal with consequences oflimited communication-the lack of a global view and the possibility that the individual agents may not have all the information necessary to accurately and completely solve their subproblems-is one of the major focuses of distributed problem-solving research. It is this focus that also is one of the important dis tinguishing characteristics of distributed problem-solving research that sets it apart from previous research in AI.
Download or read book Engineering Self Organizing Dynamics in Distributed Systems written by Jan Sudeikat and published by Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In self-organizing processes, the coaction of multitudes of system elements, which are by themselves autonomous, leads to the formation of global structures that are continuously and independently adapted to a changeable environment. The use of these phenomena in the development of distributed software systems is particularly attractive as it allows distributing flexible problem solving abilities for complex global problems among the basic system elements. Hence, these processes can be used as powerful means for the decentralized coordination of distributed systems. This dissertation proposes a construction framework for self-organizing distributed systems - whereas self-organization is understood as the participation of system elements in decentralized, adaptive processes, as a supplement to the functional software system. This approach allows equipping applications with self-organizing features. A systematic development approach is enabled by the elevation of the adaptive, decentralized inter-agent process, which governs the self-organized structure formation, to an independent design element.
Download or read book Intelligent Distributed Computing V written by F.M.T. Brazier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the combined peer-reviewed proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing -- IDC 2011 and of the Third International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics -- MASTS 2011. Both events were held in Delft, The Netherlands during October 5-7, 2011. The 33 contributions published in this book address many topics related to theory and applications of intelligent distributed computing and multi-agent systems, including: adaptive and autonomous distributed systems, agent programming, ambient assisted living systems, business process modeling and verification, cloud computing, coalition formation, decision support systems, distributed optimization and constraint satisfaction, gesture recognition, intelligent energy management in WSNs, intelligent logistics, machine learning, mobile agents, parallel and distributed computational intelligence, parallel evolutionary computing, trust metrics and security, scheduling in distributed heterogenous computing environments, semantic Web service composition, social simulation, and software agents for WSNs.
Download or read book The 1995 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Information Technologies written by Carl F. Hostetter and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
