Lateral and hierarchical partial centralization for distributed coordination and scheduling of complex hierarchical task Networks

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn SS-06-04, Issue , 2006, Pages 113-120

  Sims, Mark ^a   Mostafa, Hala ^a   Horling, Bryan ^a   Zhang, Haizheng ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a   Corkill, Daniel ^a   Phelps, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL TASK; MEDIATORS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SCHEDULING DECISIONS;

DECISION THEORY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SCHEDULING;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33747203278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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