A multi-agent approach for solving optimization problems involving expensive resources

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 79-83

  Lau, Hoong Chuin ^a   Wang, Hui ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Expensive resources; Multi agent system; Optimization problems

Indexed keywords

BIN-PACKING PROBLEMS; EXPENSIVE RESOURCES; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644525273     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1066699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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