An approach to integrating HLA federations and genetic algorithms to support automatic design evaluation for multi-agent systems

Simulation Practice and Theory

Volumn 9, Issue 3-5, 2002, Pages 167-192

  Das, Sajal K ^a   Reyes, Arthur A ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Design environment; Genetic algorithms; High Level Architecture; Multi agent systems; Simulation; Simulation based design

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

HIGH LEVEL ARCHITECTURE (HLA);

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037092452     PISSN: 09284869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-4869(01)00052-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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