Self-organization for coordinating decentralized reinforcement learning

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 739-746

  Zhang, Chongjie ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a   Abdallah, Sherief ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

^b THE BRITISH UNIVERSITY IN DUBAI   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Coordination; Multiagent Learning; Self Organization

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

COORDINATION; DECENTRALIZED MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; EXPLORATION STRATEGIES; HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATIONS; MULTI-AGENT LEARNING; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROLS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865781568     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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