Abstract In this chapter, I extend Shannon’s linear model of communication into a in which is differentiated both vertically and horizontally (Simon, 1973). Following Weaver (1949), three layers are distinguished operating relation to one another: ( i ) at level A, the events sequenced historically along arrow time, generating Shannon-type information (that is, uncertainty); ii incursion meanin...

We study the consideration of fairness in redundant assignment for multi-agent task allocation. It has recently been shown that agents to tasks provides robustness uncertainty performance. However, question how fairly assign these resources across remains unaddressed. In this letter, we present...

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is an emerging and promising technology that provides significant improvements over CMOS. Recently QCA has been advocated as an applicant for implementing reversible circuits. However QCA, like other Nanotechnologies, suffers from a high fault rate. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a fault tolerant model of QCA circuits by redundancy in hardware a...