While current hypertext technology usually is restricted to single user systems, it is obvious that actual work environments require multi-user systems which support cooperating coworkers. However, previous research prototypes have concentrated either on the support for group work or on appropriate datamodels and storage policies for hypermedia objects. In this paper we discuss the CHS hypermed...

This paper presents the kinematics programming for Cooperative Robotic Systems (CRS), based on screw theory approach. It includes a systematic for modeling and programming robotic systems composed by any number of robots (not necessarily identical), working cooperatively to perform different tasks. In order to illustrate the application of the systematic, an example of CRS including four robots...

The cooperation of mobile embedded systems gives rise to new and promising applications in fields such as industrial automation, logistics, telematics, and team robotics. Such applications are subject to real-time constraints due to the physical interactions between the mobile systems and their environment. Achieving a timely predictable cooperation, however, is a challenging task. The executio...

The concept of cooperation and distribution as known from grammar systems is introduced to spiking neural P systems (in short, SN P systems) in which each neuron has a finite number of sets (called components) of rules. During computations, at each step only one of the components can be active for the whole system and one of the enabled rules from this active component of each neuron fires. The...

Autonomous cooperating logistic processes seem to be a promising approach to increase the robustness of logistics systems. Searching for the necessary organizational prerequisites for the successful implementation and sustainment of autonomous cooperating logistic processes we pick up the concept of robustness and use the New Systems Theory to outline a notion of organizational robustness, whic...

This paper studies cooperating distributed grammar systems working in the terminal derivation mode where the components are variants of permitting grammars. It proves that although the family of permitting languages is strictly included in the family of random context languages, the families of random context languages and languages generated by permitting cooperating distributed grammar system...

Welcome to the 18th issue of the CONET newsletter. CONET is the EU FP7 network of excellence on Cooperating Objects, merging the fields of embedded systems for robotics and control, pervasive computing and wireless sensor networks. CONET focuses on establishing the field of Cooperating Objects within the research and industrial community, thus strengthening the position of Europe in the researc...

Safety issues of cooperating embedded systems are very important since they are closely related to our living. In this research, modeling techniques and safety analysis techniques for cooperating embedded systems are provided. Behaviors of embedded systems and safety properties are described by Labeled Transition Systems (LTS). For convenient and effective analysis, we provide a slicing method ...