Adopt: Asynchronous distributed constraint optimization with quality guarantees

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 161, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 149-180

  Modi, Pragnesh Jay ^a,c   Shen, Wei Min ^a   Tambe, Milind ^a   Yokoo, Makoto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraints; Distributed optimization; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BENCHMARKING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM (DCOP); DISTRIBUTED OPTIMIZATION; DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING; TERNARY CONSTRAINT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044277219     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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