Evolving preferences among emergent groups of agents

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2636, Issue , 2003, Pages 159-173

  Marrow, Paul ^a   Hoile, Cefn ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Bonsma, Erwin ^a  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

AGENT SYSTEMS; DECENTRALIZED INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES (DIET); JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES; LOAD BALANCING;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 0345046500     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44826-8_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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