Reward shaping for valuing communications during multi-agent coordination

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 467-474

  Williamson, Simon A ^a   Gerding, Enrico H ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agents; Communication; Decentralised pomdps

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMUNICATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; DECENTRALISED; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; LIMITED BANDWIDTH; MULTI-AGENT COORDINATIONS; POLICY GENERATION; STATE OF THE ART;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899833701     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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