Heuristics for negotiation schedules in multi-plan optimization

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 542-549

  An, Bo ^a   Douglis, Fred ^b   Ye, Fan ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative systems; Heuristics; Optimization

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AVERAGE UTILITIES; CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEMS; COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION COSTS; COOPERATING SYSTEMS; HEURISTICS; RANDOMIZED APPROACH; REMOTE RESOURCES;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84899926062     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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