Agents, assemblers, and ANTS: Scheduling assembly with market and biological software mechanisms

Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 133-137

  Toth Fejel, Tihamer T ^a  

^a ALTARUM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY;

NANOSCALE ASSEMBLERS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0033702952     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/11/2/315     Document Type: Article

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