Bumping strategies for the multiagent agreement problem

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 527-533

  Modi, Pragnesh Jay ^a   Veloso, Manuela ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Constraint Optimization

Indexed keywords

BUMPING DECISIONS; CALENDAR MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATION; PRIVACY RESTRICTIONS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA TRANSFER; DECISION MAKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644803832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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