A formal analysis of potential energy in a multi-agent system

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3228, Issue , 2004, Pages 131-145

  Spears, William M ^a   Spears, Diana F ^a   Heil, Rodney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

MOBILE PHYSICAL AGENTS; PHYSICOMIMETICS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 26444463459     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30960-4_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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