Learning automata as a basis for multi agent reinforcement learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3898 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 71-85

  Nowé, Ann ^a   Verbeeck, Katja ^a   Peeters, Maarten ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

LEARNING AUTOMATA; MULTI AGENT LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MULTI-STAGE MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745631487     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11691839_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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