An approach to rollback recovery of collaborating mobile agents

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-57

  Osman, Taha ^a   Wagealla, Waleed ^a   Bargiela, Andrzej ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Checkpointing; Cooperative systems; Fault tolerance; Mobile agents; Rollback recovery

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; DATA TRANSFER; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; MOBILE COMPUTING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

CHECKPOINTING; COOPERATIVE SYSTEM; MOBILE AGENTS; ROLLBACK RECOVERY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0442295564     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2003.818496     Document Type: Article

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