Agent influence as a predictor of difficulty for decentralized problem-solving

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 688-693

  Allen, Martin ^a   Zilberstein, Shlomo ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED PROBLEMS; MULTIAGENT PROBLEMS; TASK DECOMPOSITIONS;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 36349036008     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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