Inference-based ambiguity management in decentralized decision-making: Decentralized control of discrete event systems

Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference, CDC-ECC '05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 3480-3485

  Kumar, Ratnesh ^a   Takai, Shigemasa ^b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; SET THEORY;

AMBIGUITY-GRADATIONS; DECENTRALIZED DECISION-MAKING; DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS; GLOBAL DECISIONS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 33847194613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2005.1582701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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