Distributed Belief Revision

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-143

  Dragoni, Aldo Franco ^a   Giorgini, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Belief revision; Information fusion; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED BELIEF REVISION; INFORMATION FUSION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; PUBLIC POLICY; SENSORS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0347132460     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021833301185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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