Learning signaling behaviors and specialization in cooperative agents

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-28

  Murciano, Antonio ^a   Millán, José Del R ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Multiagent systems; Reinforcement learning; Specialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030153304     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971239600500102     Document Type: Article

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