Reinforcement learning approaches to coordination in cooperative multi-agent systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2636, Issue , 2003, Pages 18-32

  Kapetanakis, Spiros ^a   Kudenko, Daniel ^a   Strens, Malcolm J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Guidance and Imaging Solutions   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

ACTION SELECTION; INDEPENDENT AGENTS; JOINT ACTIONS; MODEL ESTIMATION; Q-LEARNING; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING APPROACH; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TECHNIQUES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 23144450076     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44826-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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