Learning and Coordination : Enhancing Agent Performance through Distributed Decision Making /

Intelligent systems of the natural kind are adaptive and robust: they learn over time and degrade gracefully under stress. If artificial systems are to display a similar level of sophistication, an organizing framework and operating principles are required to manage the resulting complexity of desig...

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Main Author: Kim, Steven H.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1994.
Series:International series on microprocessor-based and intelligent systems engineering ; 13.
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