Aligning social welfare and agent preferences to alleviate traffic congestion

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 646-653

  Turner, Kagan ^a   Welch, Zachary T ^a   Agogino, Adrian ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi agent systems; Optimization; Reinforcement learning; Traffic management; Transportation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION;

AGENT PREFERENCES; BOTTOM UP APPROACH; MULTI-AGENT COORDINATIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; POOR PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84899955497     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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