Stigmergic modeling of hierarchical task networks

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

Volumn 5683 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 98-109

  Van Dyke Parunak, H ^a   Belding, Theodore ^a   Bisson, Robert ^a   Brueckner, Sven ^a   Downs, Elizabeth ^a   Hilscher, Rainer ^b   Decker, Keith S ^c  

^a TTGSI   (United States)

^b ALTARUM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

HTN; Interaction; Planning; Scheduling; Stigmergy; T MS

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROBLEMS; HIERARCHICAL TASK NETWORKS; HTN; STIGMERGIC AGENTS; STIGMERGY;

SCHEDULING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954619410     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13553-8_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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