Sporadic pairwise synchronization for decentralized decision-making in mobile agent teams

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 3531-3536

  Liao, Yan ^a   Jin, Yan ^a   Minai, Ali A ^a   Polycarpou, Marios M ^a,b  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE SEARCH; FIXED POPULATION; SPORADIC PAIRWISE SYNCHRONIZATION; SUBJECTIVE INFORMATION BASE (SIB);

BROADCASTING; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEARCH ENGINES;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 34047204979     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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