Evolutionary market agents for resource allocation in decentralised systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5199 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 1071-1080

  Lewis, Peter R ^a   Marrow, Paul ^a,b   Yao, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BT Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Decentralised systems; Load balancing; Market based control; Self interested agents

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; MARKETING; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; COMMERCE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

CO-EVOLUTION; DECENTRALISED SYSTEMS; LOAD-BALANCING; MARKET-BASED CONTROL; SELF-INTERESTED AGENTS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

CO-EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE CO EVOLUTIONS; DECENTRALISED SYSTEMS; MARKET-BASED CONTROL; NASH EQUILIBRIA; NON-COOPERATIVE; SELF-INTERESTED AGENTS; SERVICE PROVIDER;

EID: 56449122093     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87700-4_106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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