Distributed Computing by Mobile Entities : Current Research in Moving and Computing / edited by Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, Nicola Santoro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flocchini, Paola, editor.

Prencipe, Giuseppe, editor.

Santoro, Nicola, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

LNCS sublibrary. Theoretical computer science and general issues ; SL 1, 11340.

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues ; 11340

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer input-output equipment.

Computers, Special purpose.

Computer architecture.

Computer networks.

Robotics.

Operating systems (Computers).

Input/Output and Data Communications.

Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.

Computer System Implementation.

Computer Communication Networks.

Operating Systems.

Local Subjects:

Input/Output and Data Communications.

Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.

Computer System Implementation.

Computer Communication Networks.

Robotics.

Operating Systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 683 pages) : 405 illustrations, 66 illustrations in color.

Edition:

First edition 2019.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.

System Details:

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Summary:

Distributed Computing by Mobile Entities is concerned with the study of the computational and complexity issues arising in systems of decentralized computational entities operating in a spatial universe Encompassing and modeling a large variety of application environments and systems, from robotic swarms to networks of mobile sensors, from software mobile agents in communication networks to crawlers and viruses on the web, the theoretical research in this area intersects distributed computing with the fields of computational geometry (especially for continuous spaces), control theory, graph theory and combinatorics (especially for discrete spaces). The research focus is on determining what tasks can be performed by the entities, under what conditions, and at what cost. In particular, the central question is to determine what minimal hypotheses allow a given problem to be solved. This book is based on the lectures and tutorial presented at the research meeting on "Moving and Computing" (mac) held at La Maddalena Island in June 2017. Greatly expanded, revised and updated, each of the lectures forms an individual Chapter. Together, they provide a map of the current knowledge about the boundaries of distributed computing by mobile entities.

Contents:

Models

Robots in LOOK-COMPUTE-MOVE

Continuous Time Robots

Agents

Other Computational Settings.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-030-11072-7

9783030110727

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