Constraint-based reasoning and privacy/efficiency tradeoffs in multi-agent problem solving

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 161, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 209-227

  Wallace, Richard J ^a   Freuder, Eugene C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Distributed constraint satisfaction; Multiagent systems; Privacy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

CONSTRAINT-BASED REASONING; DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION; PRIVACY; TRADEOFFS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044287458     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2004.10.006     Document Type: Article

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