Swarm Intelligence
Swarm intelligence refers to multiagent systems whose behavior is motivated by models of naturally occurring swarming systems, such as social insect swarms (e.g., ants, wasps, etc). My past research in this area includes applications of models of wasp task allocation and wasp social hierarchy formation to industrial scheduling and coordination problems, as well as multirobot coordination in space exploration. I have also explored applications of swarming agents to data management and network monitoring on mobile ad hoc networks.
Selected Publications
- Designing Decentralized Software for a Wireless Network Environment: Evaluating Patterns of Mobility for a Mobile Agent Swarm.
Vincent A. Cicirello, Andrew Mroczkowski, and William Regli.
In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Second Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability, pages 49-57. August 2005. doi:10.1109/MASSUR.2005.1507047
[PDF] [BIB] [DOI] - Designing Dependable Agent Systems for Mobile Wireless Networks.
Vincent A. Cicirello, Max Peysakhov, Gustave Anderson, Gaurav Naik, Kenneth Tsang, William C. Regli, and Moshe Kam.
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 19(5): 39-45, September/October 2004. doi:10.1109/MIS.2004.41
Special Issue on Dependable Agent Systems.
[PDF] [BIB] [DOI] - Wasp-like Agents for Distributed Factory Coordination.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 8(3): 237-266, May 2004. doi:10.1023/B:AGNT.0000018807.12771.60
[PDF] [BIB] [DOI] - Ecology Based Decentralized Agent Management System.
Maxim D. Peysakhov, Vincent A. Cicirello, and William C. Regli.
In Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems: Third International Workshop, FAABS 2004, Revised Selected Papers, volume LNCS 3228 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1-11. Springer-Verlag, April 2004. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30960-4_1
[PDF] [BIB] [DOI] - WHISTLING: Wasp Behavior Inspired Stochastic Sampling.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
In The 2002 SIAM Annual Meeting and SIAM 50th Anniversary, Final Program and Abstracts, pages 228. SIAM, July 2002.
[PDF] [BIB] - Distributed Coordination of Resources via Wasp-like Agents.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
In Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems: First International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, WRAC-2002, volume LNAI 2564 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 71-80. Springer-Verlag, January 2002. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-45173-0_5
[PDF] [BIB] [DOI] - Wasp-like Agents for Distributed Factory Coordination.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-01-39, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2001.
[PDF] [BIB] - Randomizing Dispatch Scheduling Policies.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
In Using Uncertainty Within Computation: Papers from the 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium, pages 30-37. AAAI Press, November 2001.
[PDF] [BIB] [PUB] - A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Multi-Agent Systems for Shop Floor Routing.
Vincent A. Cicirello.
Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-01-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2001.
[PDF] [BIB] - Improved Routing Wasps for Distributed Factory Control.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
In The IJCAI-01 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing, Working Notes, pages 26-32. August 2001.
[PDF] [BIB] - Insect Societies and Manufacturing.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
In The IJCAI-01 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing, Working Notes, pages 33-38. August 2001.
[PDF] [BIB] - Wasp Nests for Self-Configurable Factories.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 473-480. ACM Press, May/June 2001. doi:10.1145/375735.376420
[PDF] [BIB] [DOI] - Ant Colony Control for Autonomous Decentralized Shop Floor Routing.
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith.
In ISADS-2001: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, pages 383-390. IEEE Computer Society Press, March 2001. doi:10.1109/ISADS.2001.917443
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