Effective fault tolerance for agent-based cluster computing

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 189-196

  Shum, Kam Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; NETWORKS OF WORKSTATIONS (NOW); PARALLEL DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033363687     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(99)00057-6     Document Type: Article

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