Using cooperative mediation to coordinate traffic lights: A case study

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 597-604

  De Oliveira, Denise ^a   Bazzan, Ana L C ^a   Lesser, Victor ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraint Optimization Problems; Coordination; Traffic Control

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL CENTRALIZED SOLUTION; CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; COORDINATION; FREQUENCY OF MISCOORDINATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; GAME THEORY; GROUND VEHICLES; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 33644792912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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