Coordinated Problem Solving Through Resource Sharing in a Distributed Environment

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1299-1304

  Deshpande, Umesh ^a   Gupta, Arobinda ^a   Basu, Anupam ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Contract net protocol; Distributed problem solving; Fuzzy logic; Multiagent systems; Multiobjective decision making

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONTRACT NET PROTOCOLS; MULTIOBJECTIVE DECISION MAKING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842535164     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2003.818535     Document Type: Article

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