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Distributed Computing by Mobile Entities is concerned with the study of the computational and complexity issues arising in systems of decentralized computational entities operating in a spatial universe Encompassing and modeling a large variety of application environments and systems, from robotic swarms to networks of mobile sensors, from software mobile agents in communication networks to crawlers and viruses on the web, the theoretical research in this area intersects distributed computing with the fields of computational geometry (especially for continuous spaces), control theory, graph theory and combinatorics (especially for discrete spaces). The research focus is on determining what tasks can be performed by the entities, under what conditions, and at what cost. In particular, the central question is to determine what minimal hypotheses allow a given problem to be solved. This book is based on the lectures and tutorial presented at the research meeting on “Moving and Computing" (mac) held at La Maddalena Island in June 2017. Greatly expanded, revised and updated, each of the lectures forms an individual Chapter. Together, they provide a map of the current knowledge about the boundaries of distributed computing by mobile entities.
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Keywords
- agents
- artificial intelligence
- computer networks
- data communication systems
- distributed algorithm
- distributed computer systems
- mobile agents
- mobile computing
- mobile robots
- mobile telecommunication systems
- Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)
- network protocol design
- parallel algorithms
- robotics
- robots
- sensor networks
- telecommunication networks
- wireless networks
- wireless telecommunication systems
Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Models
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Robots in Look-Compute-Move
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Continuous Time Robots
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Agents
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Distributed Computing by Mobile Entities
Book Subtitle: Current Research in Moving and Computing
Editors: Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, Nicola Santoro
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11072-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11071-0Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11072-7Published: 12 January 2019
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 683
Number of Illustrations: 339 b/w illustrations, 66 illustrations in colour
Topics: Input/Output and Data Communications, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Computer System Implementation, Computer Communication Networks, Robotics, Operating Systems