Download or read book Distributed Search by Constrained Agents written by Amnon Meisels and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well defined model of distributed constraints satisfaction and optimization (DisCSPs/DisCOPs) can serve as the basis for the design and investigation of distributed search algorithms, of protocols and of negotiations and search. This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the field of distributed constraints, its algorithms and its active research areas. The book introduces distributed constraint satisfaction and optimization problems and describes the underlying model.