Phase transitions in "conventional" materials – such as water turning into ice or a metal becoming magnetised – and topological phase transitions have long been treated as fundamentally distinct, ...

This study addresses a lifelong multi-agent path finding (lifelong MAPF) problem that continuously solves an MAPF instance online according to newly assigned goals. Specifically, we focus on lifelong ...

Maps must be more than static reference tools; they must be dynamic platforms that reflect the world as it changes.

Robust environment mapping using flux skeletons Abstract: We consider how to directly extract a road map (also known as a topological representation) of an initially-unknown 2-dimensional environment ...

Sweden plans to survey immigrants' values in a bid to improve their integration into the country's progressive and liberal society.