To teach or not to teach? Decision making under uncertainty in ad hoc teams

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 117-124

  Stone, Peter ^a   Kraus, Sarit ^b,c  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Coordination; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

AD-HOC TEAMS; COMMUNICATION LANGUAGES; COORDINATION; COORDINATION PROTOCOLS; DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; DISCRETE DISTRIBUTION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING ALGORITHM; OPTIMAL ACTIONS;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84875873713     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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