The growing use of mobile code in downloaded programs such as applets and servlets has increased interest in robust mechanisms for ensuring privacy and secrecy. Common security mechanisms such as sandboxing and access control are either too restrictive or too weak—they prevent applications from sharing data usefully, or allow private information to leak. For example, security mechanisms in Java...

When humans collaborate with each other, they often make decisions by observing others and considering the consequences that their actions may have on entire team, instead of greedily doing what is best for just themselves. We would like our AI agents to effectively in a similar way capturing model partners. In this work, we propose analyze decentralized Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) problem coupled...

This paper deal with planar motion control of multiple underactuated Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) based on merging of Fuzzy/Lyapunov and kinetic controllers. A cooperative algorithm based on a decentralized planning algorithm which considers the underwater vehicles in an initial open chain configuration is developed. All the planned trajectories are intersections-free, and each trajectory ...

This paper surveys recent results in game theory and cooperative control and highlights their implications for the problem of optimizing energy production in wind farms. One such result is a simple payoff-based learning rule that is completely decentralized and leads to an efficient configuration of actions in virtually any distributed system. We demonstrate that this learning rule can be used ...

The problem of development and application of the multiagent techniques for organizing mobile exploring agents' cooperative behavior is examined. The main problems related to design and operating of distributed decentralized homogeneous multi-agent systems with restricted local interaction between agents are analyzed. A number of collective behavior models (algorithmic, interpolational, entropi...

The paper presents an algorithm for Bayesian decentralized data fusion (BDDF) and its extension to informationtheoretic control. The algorithm is stated for a feature represented by a general probability density function. Several specific representations are then considered – Gaussian, discrete, Certainty Grid, and hybrid. Well known algorithms for these representations are shown to fit the gen...

In order to accomplish cooperative tasks, multi–robot systems are required to communicate among each other. This inter–robot communication can be modeled as a graph. Thus, maintaining the connectivity of the communication graph is a fundamental issue in cooperative robotic systems. Connectivity maintenance has been extensively studied in the last few years, but generally considering only kinema...

In this paper, we present the power control problem in CDMA wireless data networks in the analytical setting of non-cooperative game theory. User satisfaction is represented as a net utility function, which is the difference of a strictly concave function, based on signal to interference ratio, and a cost term on user’s power. A detailed analysis for the existence and uniqueness of Nash equilib...