Concurrent forward bounding for distributed constraint optimization problems

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 193, Issue , 2014, Pages 186-216

  Netzer, Arnon ^a   Grubshtein, Alon ^a   Meisels, Amnon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Algorithms; ConcFB; Distributed constraint optimization problems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

CONCFB; DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATIONS; DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINTS; DYNAMIC VARIABLE ORDERING; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PERFORMANCE METRICS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84866481571     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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