A study of scalability properties in robotic teams

Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 27-51

  Rosenfeld, Avi ^a   Kaminka, Gal A ^a   Kraus, Sarit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 40649100458     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-27972-5_2     Document Type: Chapter

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