Designing emergent behaviors: from local interactions to collective intelligence
Proceedings of the second international conference on From animals to animats 2 : simulation of adaptive behavior: simulation of adaptive behavior
Communication in reactive multiagent robotic systems
Autonomous Robots
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Embryonics + Immunotronics: A Bio-Inspired Approach to Fault Tolerance
EH '00 Proceedings of the 2nd NASA/DoD workshop on Evolvable Hardware
ARA - The Ant-Colony Based Routing Algorithm for MANETs
ICPPW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops
Broadcast reception rates and effects of priority access in 802.11-based vehicular ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
Vehicle-to-vehicle safety messaging in DSRC
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
MDDV: a mobility-centric data dissemination algorithm for vehicular networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
Urban multi-hop broadcast protocol for inter-vehicle communication systems
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
Co-operative Downloading in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks
WONS '05 Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services
Design patterns from biology for distributed computing
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Towards lightweight information dissemination in inter-vehicular networks
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
Decentralized discovery of free parking places
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
CarTel: a distributed mobile sensor computing system
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Cooperative Cleaners: A Study in Ant Robotics
International Journal of Robotics Research
Mobeyes: smart mobs for urban monitoring with a vehicular sensor network
IEEE Wireless Communications
An immunity-based technique to characterize intrusions in computernetworks
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Modelling Shortest Path Search Techniques by Colonies of Cooperating Agents
ICCCI '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence. Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems
A survey of urban vehicular sensing platforms
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A taxonomy of biologically inspired research in computer networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A survey on bio-inspired networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Wireless Innovations as Enablers for Complex & Dynamic Artificial Systems
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking - Special issue on biologically inspired networking
Self-adaptive and time-constrained data distribution paths for emergency response scenarios
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international workshop on Mobility management and wireless access
Security and privacy in emerging wireless networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
A novel algorithm applied to classify unbalanced data
Applied Soft Computing
A survey of context data distribution for mobile ubiquitous systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Vehicular sensor networks (VSNs) enable brand new and promising sensing applications, such as traffic reporting, relief to environmental monitoring, and distributed surveillance. In our past work, we have designed and implemented MobEyes, a middleware solution to support VSN-based urban monitoring, where agent vehicles (e.g., police cars) move around and harvest meta-data about sensed information from regular VSN-enabled vehicles. In urban sensing operations, multiple agents typically collaborate in harvesting and searching for key meta-data in parallel. Thus, it is critical to effectively coordinate the harvesting operations of the agents in a decentralized and lightweight way. The paper presents a bio-inspired meta-data harvesting algorithm, called datataxis, whose primary goal is to effectively cover large urban areas datataxis alternate foraging behaviors inspired by Escherichia coli chemotaxis and by Levy flights to favor agent movements towards ''information patches'' where the concentration of meta-data is high. The proposed scheme avoids harvesting duplication by preventing superfluous concentration of agents in the same region at the same time using stigmergy. We have validated datataxis via extensive simulations that demonstrate how the proposed bio-inspired behavior of harvesting agents effectively coordinates their movements, thus outperforming other decentralized strategies. Our solution was shown to be robust and to work well under a wide range of operation parameters, thus making it easily and rapidly deployable for different urban sensing operations.