Large commercial buildings are complex cyber-physical systems containing expensive and critical equipment that ensure the safety comfort of their numerous occupants. Yet occupant visitor access to spaces within these still managed through unsystematic, inefficient, human-intensive processes. As a standard practice, long-term building occupants given privileges rooms based on organizational role...

The requirement for adaptable and re-configurable systems for manufacturing has highlighted the inadequacies of traditional centralised control approaches. As a result, research in this area has focused on the decentralised approach, which involves the use of a number of interacting decision-makers in place of a single centralised one. The question of what are the appropriate control architectu...

We propose a decentralised hierarchical multi-rate control scheme for the control of large-scale systems with state and input constraints. The large-scale system is partitioned into sub-systems each one of which is locally controlled by a stabilizing linear controller which does not account for the prescribed constraints. A higher-level controller commands reference signals at a lower uniform s...

In this paper, we propose a unified probabilistic decentralised control and message passing framework for real time of the electrical grid which enables development future smart grid. The key elements proposed are design local randomised controllers methodology coordination between designed to account optimisation considerations on system operation. Within framework, electric is decomposed into...

We present a self-organising, decentralised control method for material flows in networks. The concept applies to networks where time sharing mechanisms between conflicting flows in nodes are required and where a coordination of these local switches on a system-wide level can improve the performance. We show that, under certain assumptions, the control of nodes can be mapped to a network of pha...

The paper deals with technical problems of automated decentralised indoor climate control in residential buildings. The lead value for the realisation of the control system is the objective thermal comfort. The measurement system to be designed works as a network between a large variety of different sensors and actuators. A comprehensive and flexible EIB networked instrumentation using cheap co...

Autonomic computing aims to deal with the complexity of todays systems by letting the system handle the complexity autonomously. This is a very hard and challenging domain because current systems are complex, distributed, interconnected and rapidly changing systems. We firmly belief that a main challenge in conquering autonomic systems is the integration of three existing research communities: ...

INTRODUCTION Health professions training institutions are challenged to produce greater numbers of graduates who are more relevantly trained to provide quality healthcare. Decentralised training offers opportunities to address these quantity, quality and relevance factors. We wanted to draw together existing expertise in decentralised training for the benefit of all health professionals to deve...

We present a self-organising, decentralised control method for material flows in networks. The concept applies to networks where time sharing mechanisms between conflicting flows in nodes are required and where a coordination of these local switches on a system-wide level can improve the performance. We show that, under certain assumptions, the control of nodes can be mapped to a network of pha...