Sensible agents: the distributed architecture and test bed

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E83-B, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 951-959

  Suzanne Barber, K ^a   McKay, Ryan M ^a   Goel, Anuj ^a   Han, David C ^a   Kim, Joonoo ^a   Liu, Tse Höin ^a   Martin, Cheryl E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent architecture; Distributed testbed infrastructure; Multi agent systems; Multi agent testbed

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AGENT ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED TESTBED INFRASTRUCTURE; MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS; MULTIAGENT TESTBED;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034187505     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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