The scheduling and organization of periodic associative computation: Essential networks

Review of Economic Design

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-27

  Van Zandt, Timothy ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Organizations; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002298363     PISSN: 14344742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013686     Document Type: Article

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