Agents that can perform qualitative uncertainty reasoning with incomplete and fuzzy knowledge in some environments that contains linguistic variables. In brief, fuzzy agents are agents that decide his actions according to fuzzy logic rules.
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A Fuzzy Multi-Agent System for Combinatorial Optimization
Carlos Cruz Corona (Models of Decision and Optimization Research Group, Spain), Juan R. González (Models of Decision and Optimization Research Group, Spain), Alejandro Sancho Royo (Models of Decision and Optimization Research Group, Spain), and David Pelta (Models of Decision and Optimization Research Group, Spain)
Copyright: © 2008
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch082
Abstract
NP-complete problems, like many of those arising in industry, cannot be approached with exact tools in reasonable time, so, approximation approaches are required. Among such approaches, heuristics and metaheuristics methods are considered as very useful tools to obtain reasonably good solutions in limited time for such complex problems, but their application is far from trivial.