Performance prediction of an unmanned airborne vehicle multi-agent system

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 680-695

  Lian, Zhaotong ^a   Deshmukh, Abhijit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Markov decision processes; Multi agent systems; Sample path; UAV

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

SAMPLE PATH; UNMANNED AIRBORNE VEHICLE (UAV);

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 33644691667     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2004.10.015     Document Type: Article

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