Coordinating multi-agent reinforcement learning with limited communication

12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 1101-1108

  Zhang, Chongjie ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinated learning; Distributed constraint optimization; Multiagent learning

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION; FERTILIZERS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION BANDWIDTH; COORDINATED LEARNING; COORDINATION NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATIONS; INDEPENDENT LEARNING; LIMITED COMMUNICATION; MULTI-AGENT LEARNING; MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84899453582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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