@InProceedings{	  salemi2003distributed-task-negotiation-in-self-reconfigurable,
  abstract	= {A self-reconfigurable robot can be viewed as a network of
		  many autonomous modules. Driven by their local information,
		  the modules can initiate tasks that may conflict with each
		  other at the global level. How the modules negotiate and
		  select a coherent task among many competing tasks is thus a
		  critical problem for the control of self-reconfigurable
		  robots. This paper presents a distributed algorithm called
		  DISTINCT to solve this challenging problem and show that it
		  can be successfully applied to the CONRO
		  self-reconfigurable robots. A discussion how to apply
		  DISTINCT to other types of distributed systems such as
		  sensor network, swarm robots, or multi-agent systems is
		  also given.},
  author	= {Behnam Salemi and Peter Will and Wei-Min Shen},
  booktitle	= iros-03,
  pages		= {2448--2453},
  title		= {Distributed task negotiation in self-reconfigurable
		  robots},
  year		= {2003}
}