Self-migrating threads for multi-agent applications

Proceedings - 1st IEEE Computer Society International Workshop on Cluster Computing, IWCC 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 221-228

  Suzuki, N ^a   Fukuda, M ^a   Bic, L F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; MOBILE AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING; COMPUTING PARADIGM; IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES; LOCAL INFORMATION; LOGICAL NETWORK; MULTI-AGENT APPLICATIONS; PROGRAMMABILITY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 0347156940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWCC.1999.810828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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