Techniques and directions for building very large agent teams

2005 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, KIMAS'05: Modeling, Exploration, and Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 79-84

  Scerri, Paul ^a   Giampapa, Joseph A ^a   Sycara, Katia P ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE AUTONOMY; COOPERATING AGENTS; INFORMATION SHARING; ROLE ALLOCATION;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBABILITY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745241847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/KIMAS.2005.1427057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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