Collective decision-making in multi-agent systems by implicit leadership

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1189-1196

  Yu, Chih Han ^a   Werfel, Justin ^a   Nagpal, Radhika ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired approaches and methods; Collective Intelligence; Distributed Problem Solving; Multi robot systems

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COORDINATION REACTIONS; DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MODULAR ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSOR NETWORKS;

BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED; BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED APPROACH AND METHOD; COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING; COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DECENTRALISED; DISTRIBUTED PROBLEM SOLVING; FAULT-TOLERANT; HIERARCHICAL APPROACH; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899429709     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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