Multi-robot coalition formation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 637-649

  Vig, Lovekesh ^a   Adams, Julie A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Coalition imbalance; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAME THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

COALITION FORMATION; COALITION IMBALANCE; DISTRIBUTED PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK ALLOCATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33747588076     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.878948     Document Type: Article

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