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Issues and Techniques

Even without communication, numerous issues that were not present in the homogeneous agent scenario (Section 4) arise in this scenario. Some have already been touched upon above in the context of the pursuit domain. These issues and existing techniques to deal with them, along with further learning opportunities, are described below and summarized in Table 6.

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Table 6: The issues, techniques, and learning opportunities for heterogeneous MAS as reflected in the literature.





Peter Stone
Wed Sep 24 11:54:14 EDT 1997