Communication in multi-agent Markov decision processes

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

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 467-468

  Xuan, Ping ^a   Lesser, V ^a   Zilberstein, S ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HEURISTIC METHODS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; AGENT COORDINATION; COMMUNICATION ACTIONS; COMMUNICATION COST; DECISION PROCESS; HEURISTIC APPROACH; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MULTI-AGENT MARKOV DECISION PROCESS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84962090726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMAS.2000.858528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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