Using communication to reduce locality in distributed multiagent learning

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 357-369

  Mataric, Maja J ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Communication between agents; Distributed ai; Machine learning; Multi agent systems; Robotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032335478     PISSN: 0952813X     EISSN: 13623079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095281398146806     Document Type: Article

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