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MDP with global utility functions exactly are NE X P com- plete (i.e. nondeterministic exponential time) [2]. Thus, even without communication, multi-agent ...
Communication Decisions in Multi-agent Cooperation: Model and Experiments Ping Xuan, Victor Lesser, and Shlomo Zilberstein Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst, MA 01003

pxuan,lesser,[email protected] Keywords: multi-agent communication/collaboration, coordinating multiple agents, MDP b#&

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