Decentralised decision making in heterogeneous teams using anonymous optimisation

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 310-320

  Mathews, George M ^a,b   Durrant Whyte, Hugh ^a   Prokopenko, Mikhail ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asynchronous optimisation; Multi agent systems; Team decision making

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DECISION MAKING;

ASYNCHRONOUS OPTIMISATION; COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS; DECENTRALISED; DECISION PROBLEMS; MAKING DECISIONS; SOLUTION METHODS; SPECIFIC SUBSETS; TEAM DECISION MAKING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 59249086347     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.10.020     Document Type: Article

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