5 papers
Privacy-Aware Smart Cameras: View Coverage via Socially Responsible Coordination
Chuhao Qin, Lukas Esterle, Evangelos Pournaras
Coordination of view coverage via privacy-aware smart cameras is key to a more socially responsible urban intelligence. Rather than maximizing view coverage at any cost or over rel…
Resilient Charging Infrastructure via Decentralized Coordination of Electric Vehicles at Scale
Chuhao Qin, Alexandru Sorici, Andrei Olaru +2
The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) introduces major challenges for decentralized charging control. Existing decentralized approaches efficiently coordinate a large numbe…
Strategic Coordination for Evolving Multi-agent Systems: A Hierarchical Reinforcement and Collective Learning Approach
Chuhao Qin, Evangelos Pournaras
Decentralized combinatorial optimization in evolving multi-agent systems poses significant challenges, requiring agents to balance long-term decision-making, short-term optimized c…
Coordinated Multi-Drone Last-mile Delivery: Learning Strategies for Energy-aware and Timely Operations
Chuhao Qin, Arun Narayanan, Evangelos Pournaras
Drones have recently emerged as a faster, safer, and cost-efficient way for last-mile deliveries of parcels, particularly for urgent medical deliveries highlighted during the pande…
Blockchain and Edge Computing Nexus: A Large-scale Systematic Literature Review
Zeinab Nezami, Zhuolun Li, Chuhao Qin +3
Blockchain and edge computing are two instrumental paradigms of decentralized computation, driving key advancements in Smart Cities applications such as supply chain, energy and mo…