scholarly journals Coordination and Control of Hierarchically Organized Interacting Agents

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunandita Patra ◽  
Paolo Traverso ◽  
Malik Ghallab ◽  
Dana Nau
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Composition ◽  
Formal Definition ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Synthesis Algorithm ◽  
Interacting Agents ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control

The coordination and control of hierarchically organized interacting agents is an important issue in many applications, e.g., harbor or warehouse automation. A formalism of agents as hierarchical input/output automata is proposed. A system of interacting agents is modeled as the parallel composition of their automata. We extend the usual parallel composition operation of I/O automata with a hierarchical composition operation for refining abstract tasks into lower-level subtasks. We provide an algorithm to synthesize hierarchically organized controllers to coordinate the agents' interactions in order to drive the system toward desired states. Our main contribution regards the formal definition, the representation, the theorems about its properties (i.e., the parallel and hierarchical composition are distributive operations), and the synthesis algorithm, proved to be complete and correct.

Colliding Coordination Structures in Multilevel Systems of Government (and How to Live with It)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Egeberg ◽  
Jarle Trondal
Keyword(s):  
Network Governance ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Multilevel Systems ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control

This chapter discusses governance dilemmas that are often overlooked in studies that do not encompass the ecology of organization in public governance. The chapter discusses how coordination structures may counteract each other in multilevel systems of government. The ambition of the chapter is twofold: Firstly, a coordination dilemma is theoretically and empirically illustrated by the seeming incompatibility between a more direct (interconnected) and sectorally specialized implementation structure in the multilevel EU administrative system and trends towards strengthening coordination and control within nation states. Secondly, the chapter discusses organizational arrangements that may enable governance systems to live with the coordination dilemma in practice. This coordination dilemma seems to have been largely ignored in the literature on EU network governance and national ‘joined-up government’ respectively.

scholarly journals Bio-inspired Coordination and Control of Autonomous Vehicles in Future Manufacturing and Goods Transportation

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 10861-10866
Author(s):  
Constantin F. Caruntu ◽  
Carlos M. Pascal ◽  
Anca Maxim ◽  
Ovidiu Pauca
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control

Modelling global computations with Klaim

2008 ◽  
Vol 366 (1881) ◽  
pp. 3737-3745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocco De Nicola ◽  
Michele Loreti
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Systems ◽  
Formal Semantics ◽  
Wide Area ◽  
Wide Area Networks ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Global Computing ◽  
New Models ◽  
And Control ◽  
Tuple Spaces ◽  
Coordination And Control

A new area of research, known as Global Computing, is by now well established. It aims at defining new models of computation based on code and data mobility over wide-area networks with highly dynamic topologies, and at providing infrastructures to support coordination and control of components originating from different, possibly untrusted, fault-prone, malicious or selfish sources. In this paper, we present our contribution to the field of Global Computing that is centred on Kernel Language for Agents Interaction and Mobility ( Klaim ). Klaim is an experimental language specifically designed to programme distributed systems consisting of several mobile components that interact through multiple distributed tuple spaces. We present some of the key notions of the language and discuss how its formal semantics can be exploited to reason about qualitative and quantitative aspects of the specified systems.

Terrain Adaptive Vehicles

1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (B) ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. Waldron
Keyword(s):  
Reference List ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Coordination Problem ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Vehicle Type ◽  
Variable Configuration ◽  
And Control ◽  
Wheeled Vehicles ◽  
Coordination And Control ◽  
Principal Elements

Research on walking vehicles and variable configuration wheeled vehicles is reviewed. The central feature of the vehicles discussed is terrain adaptive capability. The principal elements of the technical problems of coordination and control are discussed for each vehicle type. Examples of each vehicle type are discussed and an extensive reference list is provided. Although the article is primarily a review article, it contains a new discussion of the coordination problem of robotic mechanisms.

scholarly journals LEGAL BASIS OF INTERACTION OF BODIES AND DIVISIONS OF THE NATIONAL POLICE WITH LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT BODIES IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND ORDER

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-94
Author(s):  
Sergiy Vitvitskyi ◽  
◽  
Andriу Zakharchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mass Actions ◽  
Traffic Organization ◽  
National Police ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control

The article analyzes the state of legislation as for provisions on the interaction of bodies and units of the National Police with local self governments in the field of public safety and order. The main directions of improving the legal basis of interaction of these bodies in this area are substantiated. One of the factors influencing the state of public safety and order in settlements is the degree of interaction of bodies and subdivisions of the National Police with local self-government bodies representing the respective territorial communities. According to the results of the study, the following areas of improvement of the legal basis for the interaction of bodies and units of the National Police with local self governments in the field of public safety and order were proposed: 1) standardization of the terms of cooperation of the specified bodies concerning maintenance of public safety and order in connection with the organization and carrying out of peaceful meetings and other mass actions; 2) consolidation of the recommended order of interaction between these bodies during the development and implementation of program documents on public safety and order; 3) determining the procedure for coordination by local self governments and the National Police in the field of coordination and control over the activities of public formations with regard of protection of public order and the state border; 4) legislative consolidation of the possibility of concluding agreements on interaction and coordination of activities by territorial police bodies and local self-government bodies; 5) determining the procedures for approval by territorial bodies (subdivisions) of the National Police of decisions of local self-government bodies on the issues of traffic organization and functioning of public transport. Separate elaboration requires regulatory regulation of relations arising in connection with the conduct of joint raids by representatives of local governments and the National Police and inspections of compliance with legislation in the field of landscaping, trade rules, etc. The search for optimal solutions to this problem should be the subject of further research.

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