A first look at the performance of autonomous mobile agents in dynamic networks

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 4525-4534

  Erfurth, Christian ^a   Döhler, Arndt ^b   Rossak, Wilhelm ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MOBILE COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVERS;

LOGICAL NETWORKS; MOBILE AGENTS; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT; TRANSMISSION AGENTS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 12344275301     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/hicss.2004.1265672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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