Overhearing is an approach for monitoring open, distributed, multi-agent systems by listening to the routine communications taking place within them. Previous investigations of overhearing assumed that all inter-agent communications are accessible to a single overhearing agent. However, as multiagent systems grow both in size and distribution two problems arise. First, in large-scale settings, ...

Lately, overhearing has gained interest in monitoring multi-agent settings. Previous investigations provided an extensive set of techniques using overhearing. However, most previous investigations rely on a problematic assumption that all inter-agent communications can be overheard. In the real-world settings, it is reasonable to assume that the available overhearing resources will be essential...

Overhearing is a plan recognition approach for monitoring multi-agent systems, by listening to the routine inter-agent communications. Previous investigations of overhearing explored an extensive set of techniques for overhearing, mostly relying on the assumption that all inter-agent communications are accessible to the overhearing agent. However, in real-world settings, overhearing resources a...

The two key benefits of network coding are increased reliability and throughput. Most network coding approaches for wireless networks rely on overhearing neighboring transmissions. Overhearing in sensor networks, however, is not energy-efficient. In this paper, we extend GinMAC, a state-ofthe-art MAC protocol, applying network coding with limited overhearing. Our approach reduces the delay allo...

A mobile node has a finite and decreasing energy. When finding routes, energy aware routing increases the network lifetime. Energy saving mechanism is required for the efficient operation of the battery powered network. In general, all the neighboring nodes overhear transmission when a node is transmitting a packet. Overhearing is caused by receiving information that is not addressed to it. Ene...

We design two mutual exclusion algorithms for wireless networks. Our mutual exclusion algorithms are distributed token based algorithms which exploit the opportunistic message overhearing in wireless networks. One of the algorithms is based on overhearing of token transmission. In the other algorithm, overhearing of both token and request messages is exploited. The design goal is to decrease th...

Overhearing can be seen as active learning, and overheard speech provides an increasingly viable source of linguistic input across development. This study extends previous results showing learning from overhearing simplified, pedagogic speech to a more ecologically valid context. Children learn multiple words and facts corresponding to novel toys either through an overheard phone call or throug...

The collaboration between two intelligent agents can be greatly enhanced if a third agent, who has some understanding of the communication between the first two, intervenes giving appropriate information or acting helpfully without having been explicitly involved. The behavior of this third agent, quite common in human interaction, is called overhearing. We present an agent architecture modelin...