Overlapping coalition formation for efficient data fusion in multi-sensor networks

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 635-640

  Dang, Viet Dung ^a   Dash, Rajdeep K ^a   Rogers, Alex ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

DATA FUSION; MULTI-SENSOR NETWORKS; WIDE-AREA SURVEILLANCE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750735386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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