Using the concept of intelligent agents in fault management of distributed services

Journal of Network and Systems Management

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 425-446

  Mountzia, Maria Athina ^a   Rodosek, Gabi Dreo ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTED PROBLEM SOLVING; DISTRIBUTED SERVICES;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 0033323406     PISSN: 10647570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018739932618     Document Type: Article

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