Coalition formation in multi-agent systems under real-world conditions

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-04-06, Issue , 2004, Pages 54-60

  Van De Vijsel, Michael ^a   Anderson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COALITION FORMATION; COLLECTIVE CAPABILITIES; HAND-CONSTRUCTED; REAL-WORLD CONDITIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 32144457553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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