Handling communication restrictions and team formation in congestion games

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-115

  Agogino, Adrian K ^a   Tumer, Kagan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; MAS; Reinforcement learning; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646001120     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-006-6105-y     Document Type: Review

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