The environmental and social costs of using oil resources as well as their increasing scarcity
are challenging tomorrow's agriculture to reduce its dependency on fossil energies (Chow et …

Consider a community of agents, all performing a predefined task, but with different abilities.
Each agent may be interested in knowing how well it performs in comparison with her peers …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted much interests in the last decade. The first
part of this thesis considers sparse random linear network coding is for data gathering and …