Decentralised development cooperation (DDC), or partnerships for sustainable between cities and regions in developed developing countries, can help drive major global agendas forward. Achieving a sustainable, equitable resilient future requires action from subnational governments many key SDGs emerging areas, such as the response to health crisis, support refugees implementing net-zero pathways...

A new algorithm for the trajectory control of robot manipulators by decentralised feedback is proposed, by dealing with the manipulator and joint actuator dynamic models in a model following framework. A variable structure control law is used with or without force measurement. The controller is simple, computationally easy, and robust to parametric uncertainties and payload variations. INTRODUC...

The efficient allocation of the limited energy resources of a wireless sensor network in a way that maximises the information value of the data collected is a significant research challenge. Within this context, this paper concentrates on adaptive sampling as a means of focusing a sensor’s energy consumption on obtaining the most important data. Specifically, we develop a principled information...

In this paper we consider decentralised PI control of the water levels in an irrigation channel. The water levels are controlled using overshot gates located along the channel, and the output of the controllers is the head over gate. This choice of manipulated variable is advantageous since the head over gate is directly related to the flow over the gate. The PI controllers are augmented with a...

The spread of a virus--whether in a human population, computer network or cell-to-cell--is closely tied to the spatial (graph) topology of the interactions among the possible infectives. The authors study the problem of allocating limited control resources (e.g. quarantine or recovery resources) in these networks in a way that exploits the topological structure, so as to maximise the speed at w...

This work introduces a model for decentralised and platform-independent data sharing for highly dynamic networks. The goal is not to deliver a solution that can be considered similar to database systems. Communication and replication challenges are presented and examined from the perspective of nomadic computing. The aim has been to provide highly available data sharing over features over mobil...

Open and decentralised multi-agent systems (ODMAS) are particularly vulnerable to the introduction of buggy or malevolent agents. It is therefore very important to protect these systems from such intrusions. In this article, we propose the L.I.A.R. model to control the agents’ interactions. This model is issued from the social control approach, which consists in developing an adaptive and autoo...

This paper presents a decentralised control approach for the hydraulic motor torque provided by a hydrostatic transmission. Based on a control-oriented model of the hydrostatic transmission, a quasi-linear state-space representation with both state-dependent and input-dependent matrices is derived. Using extended linearisation techniques, a combined feedforward and feedback control is designed....

A vertically integrated monopoly is compared to a decentralised market arrangement where production is segmented between a Labour Managed Firm producing an input used by a pro...t maximiser manufacturer of a ...nal good. Surprisingly, in some circumstances the decentralised vertical arrangement is superior to the integrated one. JEL Classi...cation: L12, L13, L 32, P13