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This paper addresses the issue of allocating tasks in multi-robot systems and evaluates the strategies that various ant colonies display in carrying out tasks and proposes four different task allocation strategies within the realms of multi-robot systems. The paper also introduces the concept of cost-benefit ratio as a measure of performance index for the task allocation strategies identified. Experimental...
Engineering asset management (EAM) process is a broad discipline and the EAM functions and processes are characterized by its distributed nature. However, engineering asset nowadays mostly relies on self-maintained experiential rule-bases and periodic maintenance, which is lacking a collaborative engineering approach. To enrich the maintenance efficiency and customer relationship, this research proposes...
In an era of rapid information expansion, people encounter huge amounts of intellectual property (IP) such as patents in digital format. These documents are usually too numerous to be fully utilized in R&D for new product designs. Therefore, efficient and effective ways of acquiring, organizing and presenting IPs (e.g., patent documents) have become very important for enterprises. In this paper,...
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