Combining state and model-based approaches for mobile agent load balancing

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 878-885

  Georgousopoulos, Christos ^a   Rana, Omer F ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Load balance; Mobile agents

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LOAD BALANCING;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 0038336708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/952700.952706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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