Analyzing myopic approaches for multi-agent communication

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 550-557

  Becker, Raphen ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a   Zilberstein, Shlomo ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT PARTIAL INFORMATION; MYOPIC APPROACH; VALUE-DRIVEN COMMUNICATION POLICIES;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846298515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAT.2005.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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