Cooperative banks play an important role in the European banking system. This paper presents an evaluation of the efficiency and performance of a European cooperative banks. For this purpose an integrated approach is employed using both data envelopment analysis as well as a multicriteria evaluation methodology. Through data envelopment analysis the efficiency of the banks is evaluated under bo...

The design, dynamic modelling, and workspace are presented in this paper concerning cooperative cable parallel manipulators for multiple mobile cranes (CPMMCs). The CPMMCs can handle complex tasks that are more difficult or even impossible for a single mobile crane. Kinematics and dynamics of the CPMMCs are studied on the basis of geometric methodology and dʹAlembert’s pr...

We consider the problem of multi-robot exploration and coverage in unknown non-convex environments. The contributions of the work include (1) the presentation of a distributed algorithm that computes the generalized Voronoi tessellation of non-convex environments (using a discrete representation) in real-time for use in feedback control laws; and (2) the extension of this method to entropy-base...

New approaches are currently being adopted to address the development of cooperative systems, although not many standards exist that can be used to develop this type of interactive system. We apply the standard Unified Modelling Language (UML) notation within a methodology aimed at the analysis and design of such systems, and present a semantic formalisation of the UML notation used to model co...

This paper aims at explaining how to follow an agent-oriented process to develop a multi-agent mechanism design system. ADELFE methodology is devoted to adaptive multi-agent systems in which adaptation is enabled by cooperative self-organization. Two main works are emphasized. First, the analysis leads to the agent identification by studying the interactions both between the system and its envi...

The interplay between metals and N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) has provided a window of opportunities for the development of novel catalytic strategies within the past few years. The recent successful combination of Brønsted acids with NHCs has added a new dimension to the field of cooperative catalysis, enabling the stereoselective synthesis of functionalized pyrrolidin-2-ones as valuable sca...

Cooperative agent networks are a common technology for localization nowadays, nevertheless it is still illusive to reach a certain level of accuracy and robustness for wireless applications, especially in indoor environments which are characterized by harsh multipath condition. In this work we introduce a cooperative low complexity algorithm that utilizes multipath components for localization t...

We introduce a framework and methodology of cooperative simultaneous localization and tracking (CoSLAT) in decentralized mobile agent networks. CoSLAT provides a consistent combination of cooperative self-localization (CSL) and distributed target tracking (DTT). Multiple mobile targets and mobile agents are tracked using pairwise measurements between agents and targets and between agents. We pr...