Publications

Journals and Technical Reports

  • Michael Rubenstein, Alejandro Cornejo, Radhika Nagpal, Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm, Science, 2014. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo and Radhika Nagpal, Long-Lived Distributed Relative Localization of Robot Swarms, Manuscript Under Submission (Available in arXiv Computing Research Repository), 2013. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo, Andrew J. Lynch, Elizabeth Fudge, Siegfried Bilstein, Majid Khabbazian, James McLurkin, Scale-Free Coordinates for Multi-Robot Systems with Bearing-only Sensors, International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR 2013), 2013. pdf

  • Yehuda Afek, Noga Alon, Ziv Bar-Joseph, Alejandro Cornejo, Bernhard Haeupler, Fabian Kuhn. Beeping a Maximal Independent Set, Distributed Computing Journal (DIST 2012), 2012. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo, Calvin Newport, Subha Gollakota, , Jayanthi Rao, T.J. Giuli, Prioritized Gossip in Vehicular Networks, Journal of Ad-Hoc Networks (ADHOC 2012), 2012. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo, Ruy Ley-Wild, Fabian Kuhn and Nancy Lynch, Keeping Mobile Robot Swarms Connected, MIT-CSAIL-TR-2009-027, 2009. pdf

Conference Publications

  • Alejandro Cornejo, Anna R. Dornhaus, Nancy A. Lynch, Radhika Nagpal, Task Allocation in Ant Colonies, International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2014), 2014. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo, Andrew J. Lynch, Elizabeth Fudge, Siegfried Bilstein, Majid Khabbazian, James McLurkin, Scale-Free Coordinates for Multi-Robot Systems with Bearing-only Sensors, Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2012), 2012. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo, Seth Gilbert, Calvin Newport, Aggregation in Dynamic Networks, Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2012), 2012. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo, Nancy Lynch, Srikanth Sastry, Asynchronous Failure Detectors, Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2012), 2012. pdf

  • Mikhail Volkov, Alejandro Cornejo, Nancy Lynch, Daniela Rus, Environment Characterization for Non-Recontaminating Frontier-Based Robotic Exploration, International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2011) [Best Student Paper], 2011. pdf

  • Yehuda Afek, Noga Alon, Ziv Bar-Joseph, Alejandro Cornejo, Bernhard Haeupler, Fabian Kuhn. Beeping a Maximal Independent Set, International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2011) [Invited for Distributed Computing Journal], 2011. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo and Calvin Newport. Prioritized Gossip in Vehicular Networks, Foundations of Mobile Computing (DIALM-POMC 2010) [Invited to Journal of Ad-Hoc Networks], 2010. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo, Saira Viqar and Jennifer Welch. Reliable Neighbor Discovery for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Foundations of Mobile Computing (DIALM-POMC 2010, Allerton 2009) [Invited to Journal of Ad-Hoc Networks], 2010. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo and Nancy Lynch. Reliably Detecting Connectivity Using Local Graph Traits, International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2010), 2010. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo and Nancy Lynch. Fault-Tolerance Through k-Connectivity, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010): Workshop on Network Science and Systems Issues in Multi-Robot Autonomy, 2010. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo and Fabian Kuhn. Deploying Wireless Networks with Beeps, International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2010), 2010. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo and Nancy Lynch, Minimum Spanning Trees and Cone-Based Topology Control, Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2009), 2009. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo, Ruy Ley-Wild, Fabian Kuhn and Nancy Lynch, Keeping Mobile Robot Swarms Connected, 23rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2009), 2009. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo and Nancy Lynch, Connectivity Service for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 08): Spatial Computing Workshop, 2008. pdf

  • Alejandro Cornejo, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal and Corentin Travers, Failure Detectors are Schedulers (Brief Announcement), Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Principles of distributed Computing (PODC 2007), 2007. pdf

In a different life (as an undergard) I did computer graphics and motion tracking:

  • Ramiro A. Perez, Alejandro Cornejo and Maria Elena Algorri, Cosntruction Camera-Based Frameless System: Technical Details and Clinical Applications, American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS 2006), 2006.

  • Alejandro Cornejo and Maria Elena Algorri, Construction of a frameless camera-based stereotactic neuronavigator, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEMBS 2004), 2004.

  • Alejandro Cornejo and Maria Elena Algorri, Camera-Based 3D Motion Tracker for Interactive Computer Graphics Animation, Research on Computing Science, Advances in: Artifical Inteligence Computer Science and Computer Engineering, 2004.

PhD Thesis

  • Local Distributed Algorithms for Multi Robot Systems. pdf