TL;DR: The efficient subdivision of a sensor network into uniform, mostly non-overlapping clusters of physically close nodes is an important building block in the design of efficient upper layer network functions such as routing, broadcast, data aggregation, and query processing.
Abstract: The efficient subdivision of a sensor network into uniform, mostly non-overlapping clusters of physically close nodes is an important building block in the design of efficient upper layer network functions such as routing, broadcast, data aggregation, and query processing.
TL;DR: A possible new algorithm is described: a distributed, emergent algorithm that provides additional dependability and resilience to failures in the infrastructure for power transport and distribution.
Abstract: The move towards renewable energy and the deregulation of the market changes the infrastructure for power transport and distribution from centralised to distributed. This requires a new algorithm for control of the electrical power infrastructure. This paper describes a possible new algorithm: a distributed, emergent algorithm that provides additional dependability and resilience to failures. The trade-offs of this algorithm, faults that can be tolerated and the possibility for priorities are also discussed.
TL;DR: Body Editing is a dual gesture-based and EEG platform that transforms movement, gesture and brain wave data into visual and audio feedback with which dancers engage improvisationally with a creature that responds in emergent fashion to the dancer's movement, allowing for improvisation.
Abstract: Body Editing is a dual gesture-based and EEG platform that transforms movement, gesture and brain wave data into visual and audio feedback with which dancers engage improvisationally. The platform, uniquely, offers a creature that responds in emergent fashion to the dancer's movement, allowing for improvisation. The emergent algorithm directing the creature's response is informed by Karen Barad's understanding that intra-action in emergent systems is a form of performativity. The wireless EEG monitor provides intuitive musical sounds corresponding to brain wave data that signal to the dancer moments when she is dancing in an unthought or apperceptive manner, in contrast to moments when she is thinking the interface and thus learning, but not improvising. Dancers describe this experience as performing duets with the emergent creature.
TL;DR: The initial results with different numbers of pursuers and evaders in a scenario simulated within the Webots environment, illustrate that pursuers using the novel emergent algorithm are able to detect different number of evaders with reasonable accuracy in various settings.
Abstract: We describe our preliminary results for a novel emergent algorithm inspired by the phenomenon of stigmergy in insect colonies, to solve the n-collaborative pursuit-evasion game. Our initial results with different numbers of pursuers and evaders in a scenario simulated within the Webots environment, illustrate that pursuers using our emergent algorithm are able to detect different number of evaders with reasonable accuracy in various settings.
TL;DR: A nature inspired algorithm intended for the movement and communication of robotic collectives and the implementation of the emergent algorithm on a system consisting of LEGO Mindstorm Robots is described.