Evolving distributed agents for managing air traffic

Proceedings of GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1888-1895

  Agogino, Adrian ^a   Tumer, Kagan ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air traffic control; Evolution; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AIR TRAFFIC SIMULATOR; ALLEVIATE CONGESTION;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 34548107054     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1276958.1277339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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