Adaptive coordination of agents for timely and resource-bounded information monitoring

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

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 175-182

  Liu, Rey Long ^a   Lin, Szu Yin ^a  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

adaptive agent coordination; resource conflict resolution; resource bounded information monitoring; timely information monitoring

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE AGENTS; ADAPTIVE COORDINATION; COORDINATION STRATEGY; EVALUATION CRITERIA; INFORMATION MONITORING; INFORMATION UPDATES; RESOURCE CONFLICT; TIMELY IDENTIFICATION;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962118530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMAS.2000.858451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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