ALADDIN (Autonomous Learning Agents for Distributed and Decentralised Information Networks – http://www.aladdinproject.org/) is a five year partnership between industry and academia to develop methods and techniques for decentralised information systems. Currently in its fourth year, its aim is to use autonomous software agents to address challenges of situational awareness, inference and co-or...

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background decentralisation aims to bring services closer to the community and has been advocated in the health sector to improve quality, access and equity, and to empower local agencies, increase innovation and efficiency and bring healthcare and decision-making as close as possible to where people live and work. fiji has attempted two approaches to decentralisation. the current approach refl...

Road traffic is an increasingly large problem which often blights urban areas. Continually building additional infrastructure is not only costly but also often unwelcome if not impossible. The cause of traffic jams however are not always, for example, a direct result of accidents or insufficient road capacity. Traffic jams can often be attributed to the interactions of individual drivers and ar...

In this paper, we propose a novel decentralised control mechanism to manage micro-storage in the smart grid. Our approach uses an adaptive pricing scheme that energy suppliers apply to home smart agents controlling micro-storage devices. In particular, we prove that the interaction between a supplier using our pricing scheme and the actions of selfish micro-storage agents forms a globally stabl...

This paper visits the quadratic optimal control problem of decentralised control systems via static output feedback. A gradicrrt flow approach is introduced as a tool to compute the optimal output feedback gain. Several nice properties are revealed concerning the convergence of the gain matrix along the trajectory of an ordinary differential equation obtained from the gradient of objective cost...

BACKGROUND Increasingly, medical students are trained at sites away from the tertiary academic health centre. A growing body of literature identifies the benefits of decentralised clinical training for students, the health services and the community. A scoping review was done to identify approaches to decentralised training, how these have been implemented and what the outcomes of these approac...

This paper is concerned with a class of decentralised control problems that arise in contemporary applications where agents cooperate to control and regulate a global quantity, are limited in the manner in which they communicate with each other, and are required to reach consensus on some implicit variable (for example, CO 2 emissions). Three algorithms are presented for achieving this goal. Th...

The coordination of dynamic task allocation based on available resources is very challenging in disaster domains under time, space and communication constraints. In addition, it is also very hard or even impossible to achieve tasks allocation by using a centralised manner with the global knowledge of the working environment. This paper presents a novel decentralised coordination approach for dy...