Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems

ECAL 2011: The 11th European Conference on Artificial Life

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pereira, José N ^a,b   Silva, Porfírio ^b   Lima, Pedro U ^b   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PETRI NETS;

CASE-STUDIES; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; EXECUTABLES; NEW APPROACHES; PERFORMANCE; ROBOTIC MODELING; ROLE ALLOCATION; SIMPLE++; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; WIRELESS CONNECTIVITIES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84893716718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-29714-1-ch098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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