Incorporating uncertainty in agent commitments

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

Volumn 1757, Issue , 2000, Pages 57-70

  Xuan, Ping ^a   Lesser, Victor R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS; MULTI-AGENT COORDINATIONS; NEGOTIATION FRAMEWORK; PLANNING AND SCHEDULING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84942919616     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/10719619_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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