Design-to-criteria scheduling: Real-time agent control

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 1887, Issue , 2001, Pages 128-143

  Wagner, Thomas ^a   Lesser, Victor ^b  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMBINATORICS; HARD TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; ON-LINE APPLICATIONS; REAL TIME AGENTS; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; RESOURCE-BOUNDED; SOFT CONSTRAINT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33747177156     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47772-1_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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