Learning and measuring specialization in collaborative swarm systems

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 199-212

  Li, Ling ^a,b,c   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a,b,d,e   Abu Mostafa, Yaser S ^a,f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Swaim Intelligent Syst Res Group   (Switzerland)

^f IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative swarm systems; Distributed learning; Diversity; Specialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344304593     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971230401200306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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