Coherent Cooperation Among Communicating Problem Solvers

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn C-36, Issue 11, 1987, Pages 1275-1291

  Durfee, Edmund H ^a   Lesser, Victor R ^a   Corkill, Daniel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative problem solving; distributed artificial intelligence; distributed control; intelligent communication; organizational design; planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - DISTRIBUTED;

COHERENT COOPERATION; COMMUNICATING PROBLEM-SOLVERS; DISTRIBUTED PROBLEM-SOLVING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0023453236     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.1987.5009468     Document Type: Article

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