A multi-agent coordinated planning approach for deadline required emergency response tasks

IET Control Theory and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 447-455

  Zhou, Chao ^a   Wang, Hongwei ^a   Zhuo, Hankz Hankui ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PLANNING;

COORDINATED PLANNING; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; EMERGENCY DECISION MAKINGS; EMERGENCY EVACUATION; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; MULTI-AGENT PLANNING; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84923326218     PISSN: 17518644     EISSN: 17518652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta.2014.0484     Document Type: Article

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