Evolutionary ensembles: Combining learning agents using genetic algorithms

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-05-09, Issue , 2005, Pages 46-51

  Sylvester, Jared ^a   Chawla, Nitesh V ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; LEARNING AGENTS; MULTI-AGENT FRAMEWORK; WEIGHTED VOTING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GAME THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33646056708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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