Towards multi-swarm problem solving in networks

Proceedings - International Conference on Multi Agent Systems, ICMAS 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 333-340

  White, Tony ^a   Pagurek, Bernard ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MOBILE AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTIONS; CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS; COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED PROBLEM SOLVING; ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; MOBILE AGENT FRAMEWORKS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SUBSUMPTION ARCHITECTURE;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84903574470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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