Decentralized Cooperative Auction for Multiple Agent Task Allocation Using Synchronized Random Number Generators

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1963-1968

  Palmer, D ^a   Kirschenbaum, M ^a   Murton, J ^a   Zajac, K ^a   Kovacina, M ^b   Vaidyanathan, R ^b  

^a JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Orbital Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; COSTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; SYNCHRONIZATION;

HOMOGENEOUS AGENTS; MULTIPLE AGENT TASK ALLOCATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0346148724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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