A pheromone-based utility model for collaborative foraging

Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 36-43

  Panait, Liviu ^a   Luke, Sean ^a  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FORAGING; COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE; UTILITY MODEL;

AUTOMATA THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 4544350975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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