This paper studies optimal communication and coordination strategies in cyber-physical systems for both defender and attacker within a game-theoretic framework. We model the communication network of a cyber-physical system as a sensor network which involves one single Gaussian source observed by many sensors, subject to additive independent Gaussian observation noises. The sensors communicate w...

Retailers often solicit assistance from manufacturers in the form of information report about market conditions or advice about retail decisions, or even by requesting manufacturers to make decisions on their behalf. However, the manufacturer's pecuniary incentive often con icts with that of the retailer's, causing concerns about the manufacturer's trustworthiness. We investigate whether and ho...

As the third party logistics partners (carriers) taking a more and more significant role in supply chain practices and customer service performance improvement, there is an emerging need for the studies on optimal channel coordination policies for business processes involving not only supplier and buyer, but also transportation partners. In this paper, we explicitly add a transportation partner...

Previous studies have shown that bimanual coordination learning is more resistant to the removal of augmented feedback when acquired with auditory than with visual channel. However, it is unclear whether this differential "guidance effect" between feedback modalities is due to enhanced sensorimotor integration via the non-dominant auditory channel or strengthened linkage to kinesthetic informat...

Coordination in SOA addresses dynamic topologies of interactions among services. Most efforts up to now have been focused on statically defined composition of services, e.g., using BPEL. To the best of our knowledge, there are no serious means to address the issues of dynamic coordination to accommodate continuously changing requirements. While BPEL is a powerful standard for service compositio...

This paper studies market schemes in which auctions are used to coordinate the buyer and competing suppliers in a procurement setting. While auction is typically considered a price-determination mechanism, it could also serve as a coordination mechanism. Possible auction and market mechanisms and their expected payoffs are analyzed in a two-supplier, one-buyer system. The auction mechanism coul...

Article history: Received June 10, 2013 Received in revised format 25 August 2013 Accepted September 2 2013 Available online September 8 2013 This paper studies the issue of channel coordination for a decentralized supply chain consisting of one vendor and one buyer in multi-period setting. Considering the allowance of the backorder at the buyer side distinguishes this work in the literature. T...

In this paper we address coordination of services in complex business processes. As the main coordination mechanism we rely on a channel-based exogenous coordination language, called Reo, and investigate its application to service-oriented architectures. Reo supports a specific notion of composition that enables coordinated composition of individual services, as well as complex composite busine...

We describe an approach to decentralized control and distributed data fusion that enables a team of autonomous underwater vehicles to cooperatively and autonomously localize and track a source of acoustic noise, and we report on field experiments that demonstrate the efficacy of our approach. A principal challenge of subsea coordination is the the extremely low-bandwidth acoustic communication ...

The expressiveness of communication primitives has been explored in a common framework based on the π-calculus by considering four features: synchronism (asynchronous vs synchronous), arity (monadic vs polyadic data), communication medium (shared dataspaces vs channel-based), and pattern-matching (binding to a name vs testing name equality vs intensionality). Here another dimension coordination...