Robots that specialize and make exchanges

Parisi, Domenico; Carmantini, Giovanni Sirio

doi:10.1109/alife.2013.6602440

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“…They can be specialized in certain tasks or be equipped with special system parts [24]. Based on what actors can do best and what they can not do, the system assigns to each reported event a functionality relevance level, which also evaluates the competence level of an actor for handling an event.…”

Section: B System Model Parametersmentioning

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A Fuzzy Approach to Actor Selection in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks

Kulla

Ikeda

Barolli

2014

2014 17th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems

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A group of wireless devices with the ability to sense physical events (sensors) or to perform relatively complicated actions (actors), is referred to as Wireless Sensor and Actor Network (WSAN). In WSANs, sensors gather information about the physical events, while actors perform appropriate actions upon the environment, based on the sensed data shared by sensors. In order to provide effective sensing and acting, a distributed local coordination mechanism is necessary among sensors and actors. In this work, we focus on actor selection problem and we propose a meta-heuristic platform based on fuzzy-logic in order for actors to decide whether they will perform required tasks, refuse or call other actors for help, based on data supplied by sensors and actual actor condition.

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Section: B System Model Parametersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Fuzzy Approach to Actor Selection in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks

Kulla

Ikeda

Barolli

2014

2014 17th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems

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External stores

Biscione

Petrosino

Parisi

2015

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Human beings possess external stores in which they put all sorts of goods to use them at some later time. In this paper we investigate this typically human adaptation using agent-based simulations. We show that the use of external stores explains many aspects of human life, allowing the agents to reduce their dependence on both the environment and the current state of their body and to be more efficient in extracting the energy contained in the environment. We analyse the spatial behaviour of agents with external stores located in specific positions of the environment and we find that these agents tend to develop a sedentary life. We discuss how stores can be at the origin of many human mental and social phenomena such as the acquisition of a more extended temporal perspective, specialisation in producing different types of goods, and exchange of goods.

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