The ever-increasing popularity of recommendation systems allows users to find appropriate
services without excessive effort. However, due to the unstable and complex network …

As a cross-cutting field between ocean development and multi-robot system (MRS), the
underwater multi-robot system (UMRS) has gained increasing attention from researchers …

The Internet of Things (IoT) makes attractive services available to smart objects and humans.
To aim this, IoT devices need high sensing, reasoning, and real-time acting capabilities that …

Role assignment is a critical task in role-based collaboration. It has three steps, ie, agent
evaluation, group role assignment, and role transfer, where group role assignment is a time …

Role-based modeling has been proposed almost 40 years ago as a means to model
complex and dynamic domains, because roles are able to capture both context-dependent …

To address the new functional requirements brought by the introduction of new weapons
and new combat modes, a comprehensive survey of the research progress in the area of …

In Smart Factories, automated guided vehicles (AGVs) accomplish heterogeneous tasks as
moving objects, restoring connectivity, or performing different manufacturing activities into …

As ubiquitous as the atmosphere, intelligent adaptive systems (IASs) surround us in our
daily lives. When designed well, these systems sense users and their environments so that …

The purpose of the next internet of things (IoT) is that of making available myriad of services
to people by high sensing intelligent devices capable of reasoning and real time acting. The …

Optimization problems can be found in many aspects of our lives. An optimization problem
can be approached as searching problem where an algorithm is proposed to search for the …