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Whistling in the dark: cooperative trail following in uncertain localization space

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Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents table of contents

Barcelona, Spain

Pages: 187 - 194

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-230-1

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Richard T. Vaughan	Robotics Research Laboratories, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Kasper Støy	Robotics Research Laboratories, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Gaurav S. Sukhatme	Robotics Research Laboratories, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Maja J. Matarić	Robotics Research Laboratories, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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