Coordination of decisions in a spatial agent model

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 303, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 189-216

  Schweitzer, Frank ^a,b   Zimmermann, Jörg ^a,c   Mühlenbein, Heinz ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective phenomena; Communication; Decision processes; Multi agent system; Phase separation; Spatial structures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

INFORMATION EXCHANGE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036156235     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00486-1     Document Type: Article

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