An introduction to congregating in multi-agent systems

Proceedings - 4th International Conference on MultiAgent Systems, ICMAS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 79-86

  Brooks, C H ^a   Durfee, E H ^a   Armstrong, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REDUCING AGENTS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; COORDINATION COSTS; MODEL MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; SEARCH PROBLEM; SELF-INTERESTED AGENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84962073936     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMAS.2000.858434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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