High performance service discovery in large-scale multi-agent and mobile-agent systems

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 621-641

  Cao, Junwei ^a   Kerbyson, Darren J ^a   Nudd, Graham R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mobile agents; Modelling and simulation; Multi agent systems; Performance evaluation; Service discovery

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; TECHNOLOGY;

MOBILE AGENTS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SCALABILITY; SERVICE DISCOVERY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0009912193     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194001000682     Document Type: Article

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