Coalition formation among autonomous agents: Strategies and complexity (preliminary report)

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

Volumn 957, Issue , 1995, Pages 57-72

  Shehory, Onn ^a   Kraus, Sarit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COALITION FORMATIONS; JOINT PAYOFFS; TASK EXECUTIONS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84949456886     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0027056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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