To develop such a system, a number of issues, e.g. effectiveness and efficiency of modeling work, the re-use of models, interaction and cooperation, accuracy of simulation, collaborative operation on models, etc., need to be addressed.
In these guidelines, new concepts are presented, such as collaborative robots, collaborative operations, and spaces of collaborative work.
The framework consists of (1) a conceptual model for collaboration among autonomous manufacturing work systems and (2) an ICT platform which supports collaborative operations over the web.
The architecture incorporates modifications and enhancements at the medium access control and the routing layers of sensor nodes for the collaborative operation of sensor networks.
We conclude that collaborative operation of commercial sensor networks results in ensuring connectivity of isolated nodes and is mutually beneficial for all participating networks.
However, ensuring the optimal collaborative operation of a MMG is a challenging problem, especially under disturbances of intermittent renewable energy.
In this paper, the economic and collaborative operation of MMGs is formulated as a unit commitment problem to describe the discrete characteristics of energy transaction combinations among MGs.
We presented a routing and data delivery architecture for mutually beneficial collaborative operation of commercial sensor networks with IEEE 802.15.4 and AODV as the building blocks.
The figure shows that for a given average rate of route request generation by the nodes, the cost of flooding for a single network operation varies exponentially while the cost of flooding for the collaborative operation increases linearly however when routing overhead is optimized using the gossiping technique the cost of flooding increases at a slower rate.
Figure 14 Cost of flooding versusnumber of nodes for single network operation, collaborative operation, and optimized collaborative operation: (a) average rate of route requests = 20%, (b) average rate of route requests = 60%.
