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Thursday, August 10, 2017
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)

Seminar

Efficient Delivery by Heterogeneous Mobile Agents

Andreas Baertschi
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

We study the delivery of packages between specified source/target pairs in a graph by a swarm of mobile agents. The agents differ in their original position in the graph, their battery capacity, energy consumption and/or velocity. We are interested in three different measures of efficiency: (i) respecting the capacities of the batteries, (ii) optimizing the overall energy consumption, (iii) fast delivery times, or a combination of thereof. I will present a survey on the computational tractability of these problems, with an emphasis on structural differences and their consequences. The talk will broach joint work with people from ETH Zürich, University of Maastricht, University of Marseille and TU Berlin.

Host: Stephan Eidenbenz