Cooperative Q-learning with heterogeneity in actions

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 112-116

  Reza Mirfattah, S M ^a,b   Ahmadabadi, Majid Nili ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cooperative Learning; Heterogeneity; Multi agent; Q learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; ROBOTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

COOPERATIVE Q-LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036967052     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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