Information structures to control formation splitting and merging

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 4951-4956

  Eren, Tolga ^a   Anderson, Brian D O ^b   Morse, A Stephen ^c   Whiteley, Walter ^d   Belhumeur, Peter N ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CONTROL FORMATION; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; SPLITTING;

MERGING;

EID: 4544227534     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/acc.2004.1384634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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