Detecting & Exploiting Positive Goal Interaction in Intelligent Agents

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 401-408

  Thangarajah, John ^a   Padgham, Lin ^a   Winikoff, Michael ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Co ordinating Plans; Goal Interactions; Rational Agents

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COSTS; FORMAL LOGIC; LIBRARIES; MONITORING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; SHOPPING CENTERS; SUPERVISORY AND EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS;

CO-ORDINATING PLANS; GOAL INTERACTIONS; RATIONAL AGENTS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 1142293038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860575.860640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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