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Moving and Computing Models: Robots

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This chapter provides a map of the current knowledge about the boundaries of Moving and Computing in Continuous Spaces, describing the “models” under which the results known so far have been obtained.

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  1. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Paola Flocchini

  2. University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Giuseppe Prencipe

  3. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Nicola Santoro

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  3. Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Nicola Santoro

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Flocchini, P., Prencipe, G., Santoro, N. (2019). Moving and Computing Models: Robots. In: Flocchini, P., Prencipe, G., Santoro, N. (eds) Distributed Computing by Mobile Entities. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11340. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11072-7_1

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