Efficiency and robustness of threshold-based distributed allocation algorithms in multi-agent systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1090-1097

  Agassounon, William ^a   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Division of labor; Embodied multi agent systems; Probabilistic modeling; Response threshold; Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; RELIABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED ALLOCATION ALGORITHMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036355375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/545073.545077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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