Reliable communication for highly mobile agents

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 81-100

  Murphy, Amy L ^a   Picco, Gian Pietro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication; Mobile agents; Snapshot

Indexed keywords

MOBILE AGENTS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTICASTING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036117204     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013449017690     Document Type: Article

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