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Reputation-based Estimation of Individual Performance in Collaborative and Competitive Grids

Hidden information is a critical issue for the successful delivery of services in grid systems. It arises when the agents (hardware and software resources) employed to serve a task belong to multiple administrative domains, thus rendering monitoring of rem ...

Elsevier2010

Voluntary agreement of Swiss car importers

This talk presents a case study on the voluntary agreement on emissions reduction in the Swiss transport sector. Based on expert interviews, this case deals with the motivation for signing as well as the reasons for the failure of the agreement. In contras ...

2010

Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement

Andreas Fuster, Stephan Meier

Monetary incentives, such as subsidies or bonuses, are often considered as a way to foster contributions to public goods in society and firms. This paper investigates experimentally the effect of private contribution incentives in the presence of a norm en ...

2010

The MarXbot, a Miniature Mobile Robot Opening new Perspectives for the Collective-robotic Research

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Daniel Burnier, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Valentin Longchamp, Gilles Roulet

Collective and swarm robotics explores scenarios involving many robots running at the same time. A good platform for collective-robotic experiments should provide certain features among others: it should have a large battery life, it should be able to perc ...

IEEE Press2010

Novel States in Magnetic Materials under Extreme Conditions: A High Pressure Neutron Scattering Study of the Shastry-Sutherland compound SrCu2(BO3)2

Mohamed Zayed

This thesis is at the crossing point of dierent elds: Quantum Magnetism which studies the collective properties of low spin systems, Neutron Scattering a powerful technique that enables to probe the microscopic properties of matter, and High Pressure where ...

ETHZ2010

Circulation of Autonomous Agents in Production and Service Networks

Max-Olivier Hongler, Olivier Gallay

The inherent complexity characterizing the production and/or service networks strongly favors decentralized and self-organizing mechanisms to regulate the flows of matter and information in circulation. This basic observation motivates us to study the flow ...

Elsevier2009

Teamwork in Self-Organized Robot Colonies

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Roderich Gross

Swarm robotics draws inspiration from decentralized self-organizing biological systems in general and from the collective behavior of social insects in particular. In social insect colonies, many tasks are performed by higher order group or team entities, ...

2009

The Complexity of Obstruction-Free Implementations

Rachid Guerraoui, Hagit Albo Attiya

Obstruction-free implementations of concurrent ob jects are optimized for the common case where there is no step contention, and were recently advocated as a solution to the costs associated with synchronization without locks. In this paper, we study this ...

2009

Euro 2008 in Geneva: A city’s experience organizing a large-scale event. “Examining “friendly” fan and hooligan behaviour in the Fan Zone

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Pascal Pierre André Viot

Large-scale events like the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship (commonly referred to as the Euro) put a great deal of strain on the cities that host them, forcing them to find a provisional balance between the pursuit of everyday activities and the a ...

2009

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