Hierarchic social entropy: an information theoretic measure of robot group diversity

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 209-237

  Balch, Tucker ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTICS;

BEHAVIORAL DIVERSITY; HIERARCHIC SOCIAL ENTROPY; MULTIAGENT ROBOTICS; MULTIROBOT SYSTEM;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0034204860     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008973424594     Document Type: Article

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