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CS Colloq: Dr. Yaniv Altshuler

Talk Title: Collaborative Search of Expanding Grid DomainsSpeaker: Dr. Yaniv AltshulerHost: Prof. Sven KoenigAbstract:In nature, "simple minded" animals such as ants, bees or birds cooperate to achieve common goals and exhibit amazing feats of collaborative work. It seems that these creatures are "programmed" to interact locally in such a way that the desired global behavior is likely to emerge even if some individuals of the colony die or fail to carry out their task for other reasons.
A similar approach may be considered for coordinating a group of agents without a central supervisor, using only local interactions between the agents. Such agents can be either physical (e.g. robots) or virtual. When this decentralized approach is used, much of the communication overhead (typical of centralized systems) is saved, the resources required by the agents can be fairly limited, and better modularity is achieved. A properly designed system should be readily scalable, achieving reliability through redundancy.
In this talk I will discuss a set of analytic results concerning groups of simple and limited agents that are required to collaboratively and efficiently cover dynamic or expanding domainsBio: Dr. Yaniv Altshuler had received his PhD in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. For the past year, Dr. Altshuler has been a post-doc researcher at the Deutsche Telekom Lab in Ben Gurion university, at which he investigated the field of collaborative security.

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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