Social coordination without communication in multi-agent territory exploration tasks

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 654-661

  Schermerhorn, Paul ^a   Scheutz, Matthias ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective and emergent agent behavior; Cooperation and coordination among agents; Social choice mechanisms

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE AND EMERGENT AGENT BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION AND COORDINATION AMONG AGENTS; SOCIAL CHOICE MECHANISMS; WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247182613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1160633.1160748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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