Distributed coordination with Messengers

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 31, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 291-311

  Fukuda, Munehiro ^a   Bic, Lubomir F ^a   Dillencourt, Michael B ^a   Merchant, Fehmina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Distributed computing; Mobile agents; Navigation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; INTEROPERABILITY; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MOBILE AGENTS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MESSENGERS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0032115883     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-6423(97)00024-5     Document Type: Article

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