A Method for Decentralized Clustering in Large Multi-Agent Systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 789-796

  Ogston, Elth ^a   Overeinder, Benno ^a   Van Steen, Maarten ^a   Brazier, Frances ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decentralized Systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; INTERNET; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DECENTRALIZED CLUSTERING; DECENTRALIZED SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1142292523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860700.860702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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