An application of automated negotiation to distributed task allocation

Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 138-145

  Krainin, Michael ^a   An, Bo ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DECISION MAKING; RADAR SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

TASK ALLOCATION; WEATHER SENSING;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 44149093158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAT.2007.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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