Network resource brokerage by means of distributed agent-based systems encompassing reinforcement learning schemes

Computer Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 1415-1428

  Saltouros, M ^a,b   Taskaris, A ^a   Demestichas, P ^a   Theologou, M ^a   Vasilakos, A ^c  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (Greece)

^c Hellenic Aerospace Industry Corporation   (Greece)

Author keywords

Foundation for intelligent physical agents; Learning algorithms; Routing; Service provider

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; ROUTERS;

NETWORK RESOURCE BROKERAGE;

INTERNET;

EID: 0036778956     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-3664(02)00043-9     Document Type: Article

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