Do ants paint trucks better than chickens? Markets versus response thresholds for distributed dynamic scheduling

2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2003 - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1431-1439

  Kittithreerapronchai, Oran ^a   Anderson, Carl ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; COMMERCE; PAINT; REINFORCEMENT; SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED DYNAMICS; DYNAMIC ALLOCATIONS; PAINT BOOTHS; PARAMETER SPACES; PERFORMANCE METRICS;

TRUCKS;

EID: 58149109362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2003.1299839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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