Self assessment-based decision making for multiagent cooperative search

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 705-719

  Sujit, P B ^a   Ghose, Debasish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Autonomous system; multiagent decision making; multiagent search; negotiation; self assessment

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; MULTIAGENT DECISION-MAKING; MULTIAGENT SEARCH; NEGOTIATION; SELF ASSESSMENT;

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RATING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 80053643332     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2011.2155058     Document Type: Article

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