A generalized graph-based method for engineering swarm solutions to multiagent problems

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

Volumn 4193 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 741-750

  Wiegand, R Paul ^a   Potter, Mitchell A ^a   Sofge, Donald A ^a   Spears, William M ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INTUITIVE HETEROGENEOUS SOLUTION; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIALIZING AGENTS;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 33750228091     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11844297_75     Document Type: Conference Paper

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