Collective decision making: A biologically inspired approach to making up all of your minds

Proceedings - 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 250-255

  Parker, Chris A C ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ROBOTS;

COLLECTIVE SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEM LEVEL DECISIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 28344436552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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