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interests include multi-agent systems, cooperative control, search theory, game
theory, economic models, and task allocation.

A. Sinha has received her Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and MTech from Indian Institute of Tech-
nology, Kanpur, India. At present she is a graduate student at the Department
of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Her
research interests include cooperative control of autonomous agents, team the-
ory, and game theory.

D. Ghose is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He obtained a BSc(Engg) degree
from the National Institute of Technology (formerly the Regional Engineer-
ing College), Rourkela, India, in 1982, and an ME and a PhD degree, from
the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1984 and 1990, respectively.
His research interests are in guidance and control of aerospace vehicles, col-
lective robotics, multiple agent decision-making, distributed decision-making
systems, and scheduling problems in distributed computing systems. He is an
author of the book Scheduling Divisible Loads in Parallel and Distributed Sys-
tems published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (presently John Wiley).
He is in the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, and the IEEE Transactions on
Automation Science and Engineering. He has held visiting positions at the
University of California at Los Angeles and several other universities. He is
an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.