Strategy selection-based meta-level reasoning for multi-agent problem-solving

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

Volumn 1957 LNCS, Issue , 2001, Pages 269-283

  Barber, K Suzanne ^a   Han, David C ^a   Liu, Tse Hsin ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT ORGANIZATION; COORDINATION TECHNIQUE; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; MULTI-AGENT PROBLEMS; ON-LINE EVALUATION; PLAN EXECUTION; PLAN GENERATION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STRATEGY SELECTION; TASK ALLOCATION; INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING; META LEVEL REASONING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 70350654041     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44564-1_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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