Managing agent life cycles in open distributed systems

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 61-65

  Mobach, D G A ^a   Overeinder, B J ^a   Wijngaards, N J E ^a   Brazier, F M T ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent life cycle; Agent management; Distributed systems; Middleware

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MIDDLEWARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENT MANAGEMENT;

INTERNET;

EID: 0038675583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/952532.952547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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