Reliability assessment of multiple-agent cooperating systems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 323-332

  Yen, I Ling ^a,b   Chen, Ing Ray ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Multiple agent cooperation; Output acceptability; Real time system; Reliability analysis

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY;

MULTIMEDIA CLIENT SERVERS; MULTIPLE AGENT SYSTEMS;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031221825     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.664003     Document Type: Article

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