Many applications constructed as Autonomous Decentralized Systems require high dependability, often leading to the use of distributed architectures and their associated fault-tolerance techniques. Consul is a system designed to support the use of such techniques in the construction of fault-tolerant distributed systems structured according to the state machine approach. Here, the way in which m...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD, Delft, Netherlands Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Purpose: Aggregation functions are used in distributed environments to make system-wide information locally available in the nodes of a...

This work deploys Autonomous Decentralized System (ADS) based formulation to cluster of networked visual sensors. The goal is to utilize and integrate the sensing and networking capabilities of the sensors with the systematic and autonomous features of ADS to perform visual surveillance through object detection in the covered areas of interest. In the proposed approach, several cells are distri...

We propose a new online sortition protocol which is decentralized. We argue that our protocol has safety, fairness, randomness, non-reputation and openness properties. Sortition is a process that makes random decision and it is used in competitions and lotteries to determine who is the winner. In the real world, sortition is simply done using a lottery machine and all the participa...

an elevated pulmonary artery pressure (pap) from any cause is associated with increased mortality, especially in cases of primary pulmonary arterial hypertension (pah). one of the many reasons behind a bad prognosis is the inherent difficulty in assessing right ventricular (rv) function with reproducible methods. intensive research involving the left heart has made it relatively easy to assess ...

Multiagent reinforcement learning algorithms have not been widely adopted in large scale environments with many agents as they often poorly the number of agents. Using mean field theory to aggregate has proposed a solution this problem. However, almost all previous methods area make strong assumption centralized system where environment learn same policy and are effectively indistinguishable fr...

This study explores decentralized structural control using wireless sensors and controllers. In a decentralized control scheme, control decisions are based upon data acquired from sensors located in the vicinity of a control device. Specifically, this paper studies a time-delayed decentralized structural control strategy that aims to minimize the H2 norm of a closed-loop control system. For dec...