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Decentralized Decision Making for Multiagent Systems

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  • Objective Function
  • Multiagent System
  • Composition Operator
  • Local Decision
  • Communication Delay

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Mathews, G., Durrant-Whyte, H., Prokopenko, M. (2008). Decentralized Decision Making for Multiagent Systems. In: Prokopenko, M. (eds) Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-982-8_5

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