Load balancing of autonomous actors over dynamic networks

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 4243-4252

  Desell, Travis ^a   El Maghraoui, Kaoutar ^a   Varela, Carlos ^a  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIDDLEWARE; TOPOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACTOR TOPOLOGY-SENSITIVE RANDOM STEALING; DISTRIBUTED RUN TIME ENVIRONMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LOAD BALANCING;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 12344300206     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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