Finding a feasible solution for a class of distributed problems with a single sum constraint using agents

Constraints

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 209-218

  De Bruin, Arie ^a   Kindervater, Gerard ^a   Vredeveld, Tjark ^b   Wagelmans, Albert ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributed problems; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISTRIBUTED PROBLEMS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY;

EID: 0037382862     PISSN: 13837133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022336001999     Document Type: Article

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