A model of symmetry breaking in collective decision-making

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

Volumn 6226 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 639-648

  Hamann, Heiko ^a   Meyer, Bernd ^b   Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIO-INSPIRED; BIOINSPIRED SYSTEMS; COLLECTIVE DECISION; COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING; COMPACT MODEL; FOKKER-PLANCK THEORY; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; MODELING APPROACH; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZED; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; SWARM ROBOTICS; SYMMETRY PARAMETER; SYMMETRY-BREAKING;

ANIMALS; DECISION THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 78249267585     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15193-4_60     Document Type: Conference Paper

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