Performance improvement of the contract net protocol using instance based learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2918, Issue , 2004, Pages 290-299

  Deshpande, Umesh ^a   Gupta, Arobinda ^a   Basu, Anupam ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOSPITALS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

BIDDING PROCESS; COMMUNICATING AGENTS; CONTRACT NET PROTOCOLS; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; INSTANCE BASED LEARNING; RESOURCE SHARING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 35048820432     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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