Learning to communicate in decentralized systems

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-05-09, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-8

  Allen, Martin ^a   Goldman, Claudia V ^b   Zilberstein, Shlomo ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION-THEORETIC CONTEXT; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; MULTIAGENT PLANNING; STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 33646062593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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