Agent cloning: An approach to agent mobility and resource allocation

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 58-67

  Shehory, Onn ^a,b   Sycara, Katia ^a,c   Chalasani, Prasad ^a,c,d   Jha, Somesh ^a,e  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MERGING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AGENT CLONING; MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (MAS);

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032123179     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.689632     Document Type: Article

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