Connected critical autonomous systems (C-CASs) are envisioned to significantly change our life and work styles through emerging vertical applications, such as vehicles cooperative robots. However, the scale of connected nodes continues grow, their heterogeneity cybersecurity threats more eminent, conventional centralized communications decision-making methodology reaching limit. This article is...

Multi-component molecular machines are ubiquitous in biology. We review recent progress on describing their thermodynamic properties using autonomous bipartite Markovian dynamics. The first and second laws can be split into separate versions applicable to each subsystem of a two-component system, illustrating that one not only resolve energy flows between the subsystems but also information qua...

Flexible planning and control of a factory requires concepts for the representation of the local and global knowledge of the autonomous systems working in teams. Therefore, we developed a distributed real-time knowledge base that facilitates teamwork of autonomous systems in exible manufacturing environments. The knowledge base consists of several local knowledge bases cooperating with each oth...

Fostering autonomous learning has become one of the key concerns of course designers and curriculum planners in the last 20 years which has been validated on both ideological and psychological grounds. However, estimating learners’ readiness to accept autonomous education is an important step prior to moving toward autonomous education. Thus, the current research investigated the patterns of au...

Autonomous discovery systems will be able to peruse very large databases more thoroughly than people can. In a companion paper [1], we describe a general framework for autonomous systems. We present and evaluate heuristics for use in this framework. Although these heuristics were designed for a prototype system, we believe they provide good initial solutions to problems encountered when impleme...

In this paper we mainly study the weakly mixing sets and transitive sets of non-autonomous discrete systems. Some basic concepts are introduced for non-autonomous discrete systems, including a weakly mixing set and a transitive set. We discuss the basic properties of weakly mixing sets and transitive sets of non-autonomous discrete systems. Also, we investigate the relationship between two conj...

We consider the pullback attractors for non-autonomous dynamical systems generated by stochastic lattice differential equations with non-autonomous deterministic terms. We first establish a sufficient condition for existence of pullback attractors of lattice dynamical systems with both non-autonomous deterministic and random forcing terms. As an application of the abstract theory, we prove the ...