As the community strives towards autonomous multi-robot systems, there is a need for these
systems to autonomously form coalitions to complete assigned missions. Numerous …

A problem that has recently attracted the attention of the research community is the
autonomous formation of robot teams to perform complex multi-robot tasks. The …

A new challenge is proposed for future intelligent artifacts based on biologically inspired
cognitive architectures (BICA), called the BICA Challenge. Namely, it is proposed that a …

Numerous coalition formation algorithms exist in the Distributed Artificial Intelligence
literature. Algorithms exist that form agent coalitions in both super additive and non-super …

Task allocation is a fundamental problem that any multirobot system must address.
Numerous multi-robot task allocation schemes have been proposed over the past decade. A …

Achieving cooperation in a team of autonomous agents is a complex task. To achieve
success requires each agent to have a well grounded understanding of the task and how to …

This article presents an overview of literature concerning the interface between
communication sciences and computer sciences. The author reports on how persuasion has …

The autonomous multi-robot exploration and coverage is a well-addressed problem in the
field of robotics. Exploration and coverage is the task of guiding robots in such a way that …

Hybrid Multi-Agent Architectures allow the support of mobile robots colonies moving in
dynamic, not predictable and time variable environments in order to achieve distributed …

Résumé Cet article présent une révision générale de la littérature au sujet de l'interface
entre les sciences de communication et les sciences informatiques. L'auteur rend compte …