Elevator Group Control Using Multiagent Task-Oriented Reinforcement Learning

IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1140-1146

  Kamal, M A S ^a   Murata, Junichi ^a   Hirasawa, Kotaro ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

elevator group control; multiagent systems; task oriented reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649092578     PISSN: 03854221     EISSN: 13488155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejeiss.125.1140     Document Type: Article

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