A Reluctance-Based Cost Distribution Strategy for Multiagent Planning

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-55

  Suárez, Jorge Núñez ^a,b   Winstanley, Graham ^a,c   Griffiths, Richard N ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^c Autonomous Systems Research Group   (United Kingdom)

^d Chrtd Info Systems Practitioner   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost distribution; Multiagent planning; Negotiation

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

COST DISTRIBUTION METHOD FOR AGENT PLANNING SYSTEMS (CODMAPS); MULTIAGENT PLANNING; NEGOTIATION STATE VECTORS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032115337     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008247114430     Document Type: Article

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