V-Lab® – a distributed intelligent discrete-event environment for autonomous agents simulationi

Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 181-214

  Jamshidi, M ^a   Chang, P C ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

DENS; Discrete event simulation; Fuzzy logic; Genetic algorithms; IDEVS; Multi agent systems; Neural networks; Rovers; SLA; Soft computing; V Lab ; Virtual laboratory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 0141851834     PISSN: 10798587     EISSN: 2326005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10798587.2000.10642854     Document Type: Article

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