Cooperative search for optimizing pipeline operations

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1797-1804

  Mora, T ^a   Sesay, A B ^a   Denzinger, J ^a   Golshan, H ^b   Poissant, G ^b   Konecnik, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b TRANSCANADA PIPELINES LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative search; Optimization; Pipeline operations

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

CONTROL PARAMETERS; COOPERATIVE SEARCH; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; GAS TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; INTERACTIVE METHODS; PIPELINE OPERATION; PURE COMPETITION; TIME REQUIREMENTS;

PIPING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899905198     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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