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Underlying relationships among Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in hazardous scenarios can be represented as Game-theoretic models. This paper proposes a new hierarchical network-based model called Game-theoretic Utility Tree (GUT), which decomposes high-level ...

We propose and study a new perpetual maintenance problem: The Snow Plow Problem. Inspired by snow removal in urban environments, we consider the perpetual maintenance by n mobile agents of a fixed-length interval over which some resource accumulates ...

Language models generate texts by successively predicting probability distributions for next tokens given past ones. A growing field of interest tries to leverage external information in the decoding process so that the generated texts have desired ...

Nowadays, the surge of Internet contents and the need for high Quality of Experience (QoE) put the backbone network under unprecedented pressure. The emerging edge caching solutions help ease the pressure by caching contents closer to users. However, ...

Problem definition: We explore the coordination of operational and financial decisions of proportional investment agricultural marketing cooperatives, where members’ (farmers’) equity is required to be in proportion to their patronage (i.e., produce ...

Vehicular ad hoc network is the key technology to enable the intelligent transportation system. VANET should provide reliable broadcasting to support the safety-related application. It is also required to effectively transmit service-related data. With ...

Various legacy and emerging industrial applications require closed-loop control over multiple hops. Existing multi-hop wireless technologies do not completely fulfill the stringent requirements of closed-loop control. This paper proposes a novel ...

Vehicle exchange Floating Car Data (FCD) to increase their awareness beyond their local perception. For this purpose, the context-sensitive FCD is commonly distributed using the cellular network. To receive FCD via the cellular network, the vehicles ...

Cooperatives are member-owned organisations, run for the common benefit of their members. While cooperatives are a longstanding way of organising, they have received little attention in CSCW. In this paper, through interviews with 26 individuals from 24 ...

Energy harvesting (EH)–enabled relaying has attracted considerable attention as an effective way to prolong the operation time of energy-constrained networks and extend coverage beside desired survivability and rate of transmission. In related ...

In order to solve the problem of mileage anxiety and improve the utilization rate of existing charging stations, we propose a charging strategy based on Distributed Cooperative Charging Strategy of Electric Vehicles with Reservation (DCCSR) in this ...

This paper presents a peer-to-peer cooperative positioning technique together with its performance assessment. The cooperation between the two GPS receivers is realized by means of a wireless LAN connection and is significantly influenced by the ...

Cognitive radio has attracted considerable attention because of its ability to make full use of the available spectrum resources for wireless terrestrial communication networks. In addition, the satellite communication scenario, which requires a ...

Historically, satellites have been set aside for what regards Internet connectivity; however, the interest in their usage to provide Internet connectivity is now rising again. Because of the growing demand for Internet services around the world, ...

Programming multi-robot systems is a complicated and time-consuming work, due to two challenges, i.e., the distributed multi-robot cooperation and the robot software reusability. ALLIANCE [1] is a fully distributed, fault-tolerant and behavior-based ...

Attendees of live events want to capture and share rich content using their mobile devices, during the events. However, the infrastructure at venues that host live events provide poor, low-bandwidth connectivity. Instead of relying on infrastructure ...

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is developed as an emerging key solution for wireless broadband connectivity through a flexible and cost-effective way. However, due to the lack of a physical line of defense, the security in such a network is a big concern. ...

Secure reliable position information is indispensable for many transportation systems and services, such as traffic monitoring, fleet management, electronic toll collection, route guidance, vehicle telematics, and emergency response. Unfortunately, civil ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has drawn significant attention recently as a key important factor especially in sensitive areas, through which, data can be simply collected and transmitted. However, we lack practical WSN that promises a high-speed, real ...

In this paper, a weighted node selection technique in wireless sensor networks is proposed. It is an energy-efficient cooperative technique where a selected number of sensors at the transmitting end are connected with a selected number of sensors at the ...