A prioritized fuzzy constraint satisfaction approach to model agent negotiation for railway scheduling

Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1795-1801

  Tsang, Chi Wai ^a   Ho, Tin Kin ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Automated negotiation; Prioritized fuzzy constraint satisfaction; Railway scheduling; Software agents

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FUZZY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; SCHEDULING;

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION; PRIORITIZED FUZZY CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION; RAILWAY SCHEDULING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 6344267114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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