Abstract While in the last decade, digital tools and technologies have made their way into construction industry, growth is still slow incremental. The challenge consequential need for a collaborative trustworthy environment with cooperation concurrence among stakeholders. Blockchain technology holds promise potential providing this environment, infusing transparency security mix. This study th...

In order to cooperate effectively with its peers, an agent must manipulate representations of the social structures in which it plays a part. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mathematical and computational aspects of this social reasoning process. We begin by defining an abstract representation of cooperation structures, wherein agents cooperate to achieve goals on each other’s b...

Robust adaptive estimation of unknown parameter has been an important issue in recent years for reliable operation in the distributed networks. The conventional adaptive estimation algorithms that rely on mean square error (MSE) criterion exhibit good performance in the presence of Gaussian noise, but their performance drastically decreases under impulsive noise. In this paper, we propose a rob...

Incremental heuristic search methods can often replan paths much faster than incremental or heuristic search methods individually, yet are simple to use. So far, they have only been used in mobile robotics to move a robot to given goal coordinates in unknown terrain. As far as we know, incremental heuristic search methods have not yet been applied to the problem of mapping unknown terrain. In t...