Myopic and non-myopic communication under partial observability

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 331-338

  Carlin, Alan ^a   Zilberstein, Shlomo ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION RESOURCES; EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; LOCAL PERSPECTIVE; PARTIAL OBSERVABILITY; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; OBSERVABILITY;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 78649839205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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