Evolving real-time local agent control for large-scale multi-agent systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2333 LNAI, Issue , 2002, Pages 51-68

  Wagner, Thomas ^a   Lesser, Victor ^b  

^a HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPLEX PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LIMITATIONS; CONTROL PROBLEMS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; GLOBAL PROBLEMS; LARGE-SCALE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84901725515     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45448-9_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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