Publications

2023

Mirgita Frasheri, Henrik Ejersbo, Casper Thule, Cláudio Gomes, Jakob Levisen Kvistgaard, Peter Gorm Larsen, Lukas Esterle
Addressing time discrepancy between digital and physical twins
Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, Volume 161, 2023,

2022

Arian Bakhtiarnia, Blazej Leporowski, Lukas Esterle, Alexandros Iosifidis
Analysis of the Effect of Low-Overhead Lossy Image Compression on the Performance of Visual Crowd Counting for Smart City Applications
2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 1-5 1 2022

Danilo Pianini, Federico Pettinari, Roberto Casadei, Lukas Esterle
A Collective Adaptive Approach to Decentralised k-Coverage in Multi-Robot Systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) 17 (1-2), 1-39, 2022

Lukas Esterle, Henrik Ejersbo, Mirgita Frasheri, Claudio Gomes, Hugo D. Macedo, Peter G. Larsen
Digital Twins for Autonomous Intelligent Systems: From Development to Deployment
IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems, pp 53-54, 2022

Daniella Tola, Tim Bottjer, Peter G Larsen, Lukas Esterle
Towards Modular Digital Twins of Robot Systems
IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems, pp 95-100, 2022

Lukas Esterle and David W. King
Loosening Control—A Hybrid Approach to Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Volume 16, Issue 2, Article No.: 5 pp 1–26

Daniella Tola, Emil Madsen, Claudio Gomes, Lukas Esterle, Christian Schlette, Christian Hansen, Peter G Larsen
Towards Easy Robot System Integration: Challenges and Future Directions
2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)

Lukas Esterle
Deep learning in multiagent systems
Deep Learning for Robot Perception and Cognition, 435-460

2021

Lukas Esterle, Claudio Gomes, Mirgita Frasheri, Henrik Ejersbo, Sven Tomforde, Peter G. Larsen
Digital twins for collaboration and self-integration
2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C)
Workshop on Self-improving System Integration (SISSY)

Lukas Esterle, Barry Porter, Jim Woodcock
Verification and Uncertaintiesin Self-integrating System
2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C)
Workshop on Self-improving System Integration (SISSY)

Christos Chronopoulos, Karsten Winther Johansen, Jochen Teizer, Carl Schultz, Lukas Esterle
Towards a Holistic, Self-organised Safety Framework for Construction
2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C)
Workshop on Self-organizing Construction (SOCO)

Mirgita Frasheri, Henrik Ejersbo, Casper Thule, Lukas Esterle
RMQFMU: Bridging the Real World with Co-simulation Technical Report
arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01010, 2021

Kirstie Bellman, Jean Botev, Ada Diaconescu, Lukas Esterle, Christian Gruhl, Christopher Landauer, Peter R Lewis, Phyllis R Nelson, Evangelos Pournaras, Anthony Stein, Sven Tomforde
Self-improving system integration: Mastering continuous change
Future Generation Computer Systems, 117, 29-46,

Mirgita Frasheri, Lukas Esterle, Alessandro Papadopoulos
Cooperative Multi-agent Systems for the Multi-target κ-Coverage Problem
Agents and Artificial Intelligence, 106-131

2020

Lukas Esterle, John NA Brown
The Competence Awareness Window: Knowing what I can and cannot do
2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C)

John NA Brown, Lukas Esterle
I’m already optimal: the Dunning-Kruger Effect, Sociogenesis, and Self-Integration
2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C)

Alessandro V Papadopoulos, Lukas Esterle
Situational Trust in Self-aware Collaborating Systems
2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C)

Stefan Hallerstede, Peter G. Larsen, Jalil Boudjadar, Carl PL Schultz, Lukas Esterle.
On the Design of a New Software Engineering Curriculum in Computer Engineering
Frontiers in Software Engineering Education. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12271. Springer

Peter G. Larsen, Hugo D. Macedo, Claudio G. Gomes, Lukas EsterleCasper Thule, John Fitzgerald, Kenneth Pierce.
Collaborative Modelling and Co-simulation in Engineering and Computing Curricula
Frontiers in Software Engineering Education. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12271. Springer

Lukas Esterle and John N. A. Brown.
I Think Therefore You Are: Models for Interaction in Collectives of Self-aware Cyber-physical Systems
ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems 4, 4, Article 39

Kirstie Bellman, Christopher Landauer, Nikil Dutt, Lukas Esterle, Andreas Herkersdorf, Axel Jantsch, Nima TaheriNejad, Peter R. Lewis, Marco Platzner, and Kalle Tammemäe.
Self-aware Cyber-Physical Systems
ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems. 4, 4, Article 38

Mirgita Frasheri, Lukas Esterle, and Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos.
Modeling the Willingness to Interact in Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems
12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART)

2019

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis
Distributed autonomy and trade‐offs in online multiobject k‐coverage
Computational Intelligence 36 (2), 720-742.

David W. King, Lukas Esterle, Gilbert L. Peterson
Entropy-Based Team Self-Organization with Signal Suppression
International Conference on Artificial Life. 2019.

Chloe M. Barnes, Lukas Esterle, John NA Brown
“When you believe in things that you don’t understand”: the effect of cross-generational habits on self-improving system integration
International Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY). 2019.

Chloe M. Barnes, Kirstie Bellman, Jean Botev, Ada Diaconescu, Lukas Esterle, Christian Gruhl, Christopher Landauer, Peter R. Lewis, Phyllis R. Nelson, Anthony Stein, Christopher Stewart and Sven Tomforde
CHARIOT – Towards a Continuous High-level Adaptive Runtime Integration Testbed
International Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY). 2019.

John NA Brown and Lukas Esterle
The Computer’s Conception of the World: Using the Psychology of Piaget and Vygotsky to Prevent Sociopathy in AIs
Workshop on Self-aware Cyber-physical Systems (SelPhyS). 2019.

2018

Peter Andras, Lukas Esterle, Michael Guckert, The Anh Han, Peter R. Lewis, Kristina Milanovic, Terry Payne, Cedric Perret, Jeremy Pitt, Simon T. Powers, Neil Urquhart and Simon Wells
Trusting Intelligent Machines – Deepening trust within socio-technical systems
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. 2018.

Lukas Esterle
Goal-aware Team Affiliation in Collectives of Autonomous Robots
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems (SASO). 2018.

Lukas Esterle, John NA Brown
Levels of Networked Self-awareness
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems (SASOW). 2018.

Kirstie Bellman, Jean Botev, Ada Diaconescu, Lukas Esterle, Christian Gruhl, Chris Landauer, Peter R. Lewis, Anthony Stein, Sven Tomforde
Self-improving System Integration — Status and Challenges After Five Years of SISSY
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems (SASOW). 2018.

Arezoo Vejdanparast,Peter R. Lewis, Lukas Esterle
Online Zoom Selection Approaches for Coverage Redundancy in Visual Sensor Networks
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2018.

Lukas Esterle
“Resistance is Futile”: Using the Borg to Teach Collective Computing Systems.In Set Phasers to Teach!: Star Trek in Research and Teaching, (pp 107-115). 2018. Springer International Publishing.

Lukas Esterle
CHAINMAIL: Distributed coordination for multi-task k-assignment using autonomous mobile IoT devices
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems. 2018. Accepted for publication.

Lukas Esterle, Bernhard Rinner
An Architecture for Self-Aware IoT Systems
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. 2018.

2017

Lukas Esterle
Centralised, Decentralised, and Self-organised Coverage Maximisation in Smart Camera Networks
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems (SASO). 2017. NOMINATED FOR BEST PAPER.

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, Richie McBride, Xin Yao
The Future of Camera Networks: Staying Smart in a Chaotic World
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2017.

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis
Online Multi-object k-coverage with Mobile Smart Cameras
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2017. NOMINATED FOR BEST PAPER.

Ashish Tiwari, Scott A. Smolka, Lukas Esterle, Anna Lukina, Junxing Yang,  Radu Grosu
Attacking the V: On the Resiliency of Adaptive-Horizon MPC
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA). 2017.

Lukas Esterle
Computational Self-awareness: Challenges in Cyber-physical Systems
Self-Awareness in Cyber-Physical Systems (SelPhys) Workshop at CPS Week.

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, Xin Yao, Richie McBride
Self-aware Camera Networks: The Challenge of Going Mobile
Self-Awareness in Cyber-Physical Systems (SelPhys) Workshop at CPS Week.

Lukas Esterle, Kirstie L Bellman, Steffen Becker, Anne Koziolek, Christopher Landauer, Peter Lewis
Assessing Self-awareness
In Self-Aware Computing Systems, (pp. 465-481). Springer International Publishing.

Robert Birke, Javier Cámara, Lydia Y Chen, Lukas Esterle, Kurt Geihs, Erol Gelenbe, Holger Giese, Anders Robertsson, Xiaoyun Zhu
Self-aware Computing Systems: Open Challenges and Future Research Directions
In Self-Aware Computing Systems, (pp. 709-722). Springer International Publishing.

Kirstie L Bellman, Christopher Landauer, Phyllis Nelson, Nelly Bencomo, Sebastian Götz, Peter Lewis, Lukas Esterle
Self-modeling and Self-awareness
In Self-Aware Computing Systems, (pp. 279-304). Springer International Publishing.

Martina Maggio, Tarek Abdelzaher, Lukas Esterle, Holger Giese, Jeffrey O Kephart, Ole J Mengshoel, Alessandro V Papadopoulos, Anders Robertsson, Katinka Wolter
Self-adaptation for Individual Self-aware Computing Systems
In Self-Aware Computing Systems, (pp. 375-399). Springer International Publishing.

Samuel Kounev, Peter Lewis, Kirstie L Bellman, Nelly Bencomo, Javier Camara, Ada Diaconescu, Lukas Esterle, Kurt Geihs, Holger Giese, Sebastian Götz, Paola Inverardi, Jeffrey O Kephart, Andrea Zisman
The Notion of Self-aware Computing
In Self-Aware Computing Systems, (pp. 3-16). Springer International Publishing.

Peter Lewis, Kirstie L Bellman, Christopher Landauer, Lukas Esterle, Kyrre Glette, Ada Diaconescu, Holger Giese
Towards a Framework for the Levels and Aspects of Self-aware Computing Systems
In Self-Aware Computing Systems, (pp. 51-85). Springer International Publishing.

Jeffrey O Kephart, Ada Diaconescu, Holger Giese, Anders Robertsson, Tarek Abdelzaher, Peter Lewis, Antonio Filieri, Lukas Esterle, Sylvain Frey
Self-adaptation in Collective Self-aware Computing Systems
In Self-Aware Computing Systems, (pp. 401-435). Springer International Publishing.

Ada Diaconescu, Kirstie L Bellman, Lukas Esterle, Holger Giese, Sebastian Götz, Peter R Lewis, Andrea Zisman
Architectures for Collective Self-aware Computing Systems
In Self-Aware Computing Systems, (pp. 191-235). Springer International Publishing.

Marco Autili, Kirstie L Bellman, Ada Diaconescu, Lukas Esterle, Massimo Tivoli, Andrea Zisman
Transition Strategies for Increasing Self-awareness in Existing Types of Computing Systems
In Self-Aware Computing Systems, (pp. 305-336). Springer International Publishing.

Anna Lukina, Lukas Esterle, Christian Hirsch, Ezio Bartocci, Junxing Yang, Ashish Tiwari, Scott A. Smolka, Radu Grosu
ARES: Adaptive Receding-Horizon Synthesis of Optimal Plans
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS). 2017

2016

Lukas Esterle, Radu Grosu
Cyber-physical systems: challenge of the 21st century
In e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, 133(7), 2016.

Ramin Hasani, Lukas Esterle, Radu Grosu
Investigations on the Nervous System of Caenorhabditis elegans
In Workshop on Current AI Research in Austria (CAIRA) at the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Lukas Esterle, Jennifer Simonjan, Georg Nebehay, Roman Pflugfelder, Gustavo Fernández Domínguez, Bernhard Rinner
Self-aware Object Tracking in Multi-Camera Networks
In Self-aware Computing Systems: An Engineering Approach (pp. 261-277). Springer International Publishing.

Shuo Wang, Georg Nebehay, Lukas Esterle, Kristian Nymoen, Leandro L. Minku
Common Techniques for Self-awareness and Self-expression
In Self-aware Computing Systems: An Engineering Approach (pp. 113-142). Springer International Publishing.

Leandro L. Minku, Lukas Esterle, Georg Nebehay, Renzhi Chen
Knowledge Representation and Modelling: Structures and Trade-Offs
In Self-aware Computing Systems: An Engineering Approach (pp. 79-111). Springer International Publishing.

Claudio Piciarelli, Lukas Esterle, Asif Khan, Bernhard Rinner and Gian Luca Foresti
Dynamic Reconfiguration in Camera Networks: a short survey
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 26(5), 965-977.

2015

Lukas Esterle, Bernhard Rinner, and Peter R. Lewis
Self-organising Zooms for Decentralised Redundancy Management in Visual Sensor Networks
IEEE International Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems (SASO). 2015.

Bernhard Rinner, Lukas Esterle, Jennifer Simonjan, Georg Nebehay, Roman Pflugfelder, Peter R. Lewis and Gustavo Fernández Domínguez
Self-aware and Self-expressive Camera Networks
IEEE Computer Magazine. 48(7):21-28, July 2015.

Peter R. Lewis, Lukas Esterle, Arjun Chandra, Bernhard Rinner, Jim Torresen and Xin Yao
Static, Dynamic and Adaptive Heterogeneity in Socio-Economic Distributed Smart Camera Networks
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 10(2), 2015

2014

Tao Chen, Funmilade Faniyi, Rami Bahsoon, Peter R. Lewis, Xin Yao, Leandro L. Minku and Lukas Esterle
The Handbook of Engineering Self-Aware and Self-Expressive Systems
Computing Research Repository (CoRR), vol. abs/1409.1793. arXiv, 2014.

Jennifer Simonjan, Lukas Esterle, Bernhard Rinner, Georg Nebehay, Gustavo Fernandez Domínguez
Demo: Demonstrating Autonomous Handover in Heterogeneous Multi-camera Systems
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2014.

Lukas Esterle
Autonomous Distributed Tracking in Networks of Self-organised Smart Cameras
Thesis submitted to the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt for the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences. 2014

Kristof Van Moffaert, Tim Brys, Arjun Chandra, Lukas Esterle, Peter Lewis and Ann Nowé
A Novel Adaptive Weight Selection Algorithm for Multi-Objective Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), 2014.

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, Xin Yao, Bernhard Rinner
Socio-Economic Vision Graph Generation and Handover in Distributed Smart Camera Networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 10(2), 2014.

2013

Bernhard Dieber, Jennifer Simonjan, Lukas Esterle, Bernhard Rinner, Georg Nebehay, Roman Pflugfelder, Gustavo Fernandez Domínguez
Ella: Middleware for Multi-camera Surveillance in Heterogeneous Visual Sensor Networks
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2013.

Peter R. Lewis, Lukas Esterle, Arjun Chandra, Bernhard Rinner and Xin Yao
Learning to be Different: Heterogeneity and Efficiency in Distributed Smart Camera Networks
In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), 2013.

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, Horatio Caine, Xin Yao and Bernhard Rinner
CamSim: A Distributed Smart Camera Network Simulator
In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASOW), 2013.

2012

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, Bernhard Rinner, Xin Yao
Improved Adaptivity and Robustness in Decentralised Multi-Camera Networks.
In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2012), 2012.

Bernhard Dieber, Lukas Esterle, Bernhard Rinner
Distributed Resource-aware Task Assignment for Complex Monitoring Scenarios in Visual Sensor Networks
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2012), 2012.

Tobias Becker, Andreas Agne, Peter R. Lewis, Ramii Bahsoon, Funmilade Faniyi, Lukas Esterle, Ariane Keller, Arjun Chandra, Alexander R. Jensenius, Stephan C. Stilkerich
EPiCS: Engineering Proprioception in Computing Systems.
In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2012), 2012.

Bernhard Rinner, Bernhard Dieber, Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, Xin Yao
Resource-Aware Configuration in Smart Camera Networks.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Camera Networks and Wide Area Scene Analysis (CVPRW 2012), 2012.

2011

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, Marcin Bogdanski, Bernhard Rinner, Xin Yao
A Socio-Economic Approach to Online Vision Graph Generation and Handover in Distributed Smart Camera Networks.
In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2011), 2011.

Lukas Esterle, Mathias Lux
Indexing Digital Images Based on Overlap.
In Proceedings of the Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE), 2011.