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Keywords
Robot-robot coordination, wireless sensor and robot networks, auction aggregation protocols.

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Ivan Mezei received his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Novi Sad in 2005. Currently, he finished his Ph.D. thesis. He published several
journal papers, more than 20 conference papers, and one
book chapter. He is a Student Member of the IEEE. His
current research interests are wireless sensor, actuator, and
robot networks.
Veljko Malbasa received his Ph.D. degree in computer
engineering in 1985 from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He spent seven years as a visiting professor at the
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Washington State University, Pullman, and two semesters
at the Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He is currently a professor and
head of the Department of Power, Electronics, and Telecommunications at the University of Novi Sad. He is a
Member of the IEEE. His research record includes more
than 70 conference and journal research papers and management and coordination of a dozen national and international research projects.
Ivan Stojmenovic received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics.
He held regular and visiting positions in Serbia, Japan, the
United States, Canada, France, Mexico, Spain, the United
Kingdom (as chair in applied computing at the University of
Birmingham), Hong Kong, Brazil, Taiwan, and China, and is
full professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and adjunct
professor at the University of Novi Sad. He edited seven books
on wireless, ad hoc, sensor, and actuator networks, and applied
algorithms with Wiley. He is editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Multiple-Valued Logic
and Soft Computing, International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and
Distributed Systems, and Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks.
He is one of about 260 computer science researchers with
more than 40 h-index and more than 7,000 citations. He
received three best paper awards and the fast breaking paper in
October 2003 (from Thomson ISI ESI.) He is a recipient of
the Royal Society Research Merit Award, United Kingdom.
He is elected to the IEEE Fellow status and is the IEEE
Computer Society distinguished visitor 2010-2012. He
received excellence in research award of the University of
Ottawa 2009.
Address for Correspondence: Ivan Mezei, FTN, University of
Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 6, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
E-mail: imezei@uns.ac.rs.

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