Self-organizing formation algorithm for active elements

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 416-421

  Fujibayashi, Kenichi ^a,b   Murata, Satoshi ^a   Sugawara, Ken ^c   Yamamura, Masayuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Univ of Electro Communications ^*  (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY;

ACTIVE ELEMENTS;

SELF ORGANIZING STORAGE;

EID: 0036449758     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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