Agent-based approach to dynamic task allocation

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

Volumn 2463, Issue , 2002, Pages 28-39

  Nouyan, Shervin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AGENT-BASED APPROACH; DYNAMIC TASK ALLOCATION; FIXED COST; MULTI-AGENT ALGORITHMS; SOCIAL INSECTS; STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENT; TASK ALLOCATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861555400     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45724-0_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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