We explore self-organizing strategies for role assignment in a foraging task carried out by a colony of artificial agents. Our strategies are inspired by various mechanisms of division of labor (polyethism) observed in eusocial insects like ants, termites, or bees. Specifically we instantiate models of caste polyethism and age or temporal polyethism to evaluated the benefits to foraging in a dy...

| We propose a new framework for the link assignment (i.e., topological design) problem that arises from the use of inter-satellite links (ISL's) in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks. In the proposed framework, we model a LEO satellite network as a Finite State Automaton (FSA) where each state corresponds to an equal-length interval in the system period of the LEO satellite network. This...

A dynamic bandwidth assignment protocol is proposed that demonstrates impartial and highly efficient bandwidth arrangement for gigabit-capable passive optical networks. In particular the novel algorithm automatically modifies the assigned bandwidth per optical network unit to support quality of service and service level agreement according to maximum network capacity and users’ queuing status. ...

This paper analyzes dynamic channel assignment in cellular systems where the base stations are placed at random. Using a simple dynamic channel assignment algorithm, random systems are compared to an ideal hexagonal systems. Under log-normal shadow fading the random system has capacity within 1dB of the hexagonal system. This paper looks at both the uplink and downlink and finds that performanc...

Two experiments are described in which participants read sentences of the form “He drank some . . .” in contexts which either did or did not introduce something drinkable. Participants were more likely to report that the sentence stopped making sense at the verb “drank” if nothing drinkable had been introduced. When participants responded, in this case, that the verb did make sense, their react...

Aiming at the problem of UAV swarms with distributed subsets performing cooperative reconnaissance-and-attack tasks on multi-targets in complex and uncertain combat scenarios, a grouping dynamic task assignment method is proposed based extended contract network protocol. The model for swarm topology established considering multiple constraints such as cooperation, sequence, environment, communi...