Swarming polyagents executing hierarchical task networks

SASO 2009 - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-60

  Brueckner, Sven ^a   Belding, Theodore C ^a   Bisson, Robert ^a   Downs, Elizabeth ^a   Parunak, H V D ^a  

^a Division of TechTeam Government Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Polyagents; Prediction; Scheduling; Self organization; Swarming

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL TASK NETWORKS; PREDICTION; PROCESS GRAPHS; REAL-WORLD ENTITIES; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SHARED RESOURCES; SWARMING AGENTS;

SCHEDULING; TOPOLOGY;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 73649125334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SASO.2009.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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