Recent work in human-computer interaction has explored the use of conversational agents as facilitators for group goal-oriented discussions. Inspired by this and apparent lack tooling available to support it, we created Diplomat, a Python-based framework building agent facilitators. Diplomat is designed simple specification functionality well customizable integration with online chat services. ...

Blockchain (BC) is a burgeoning technology that has emerged as promising solution to peer-to-peer communication security and privacy challenges. As revolutionary technology, blockchain drawn the attention of academics researchers. Cryptocurrencies have already effectively utilized BC technology. Many researchers sought implement this technique in different sectors, including Internet Things. To...

Different authors have addressed a number of problems in the area distributed control proposing convincing solutions to specific such as static coverage, dynamic coverage/exploration, rendezvous, flocking, formation control. However, major limitation problem-specific approaches is fundamental lack flexibility when group meets unexpected conditions and has change its goal on fly. In this paper, ...

In recent years, the rapid development of network infrastructure and the spread of terminals capable of network access have made it possible to access networks at any place and anytime. Ubiquitous information systems, in which necessary information can be accessed easily and safely at any place, are becoming a more important issue. It is, however, hard to design such distributed systems when th...