Application of Learning Automata to Telephone Traffic Routing and Control

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

Volumn SMC-7, Issue 11, 1977, Pages 785-792

  Narendra, Kumpati S ^a   Wright, E Allen ^b   Mason, Lorne G ^c,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AT&T Long Lines ^*  (United States)

^c NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY;

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0017556836     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.1977.4309623     Document Type: Article

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