Exploiting factored representations for decentralized execution in multiagent teams

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 469-475

  Roth, Maayan ^a   Simmons, Reid ^a   Veloso, Manuela ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Decentralized execution; Multiagent MDP

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED EXECUTION; MULTI-AGENT TEAMS; MULTIAGENT MDP; TIME STEPS;

COMMUNICATION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 60349107649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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