Soft-Real Time, Cooperative Negotiation for Distributed Resource Allocation

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-01-03, Issue , 2001, Pages 63-69

  Mailler, Roger ^a   Vincent, Regis ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a   Shen, Jiaying ^a   Middlekoop, Tim ^b  

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

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi Agent Systems, Negotiation

Indexed keywords

REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COOPERATIVE NEGOTIATIONS; DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE ALLOCATION; HILL CLIMBING; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM, NEGOTIATION; MULTIPLE LEVELS; NEGOTIATION PROTOCOL; REAL TIME CONSTRAINTS; SOFT REAL TIME; SOLUTION QUALITY; TIME CONSTRAINTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644812594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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