The mobile groups approach for the coordination of mobile agents

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 275-288

  Macêdo, Raimundo José Araújo ^a   Silva, Flávio M Assis ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Distributed algorithms; Fault tolerance; Group communication; Mobile agents; Reliable agent coordination

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; MOBILE COMPUTING; SEMANTICS; SERVERS;

DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS; GROUP COMMUNICATION; MOBILE AGENTS; RELIABLE AGENT COORDINATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 14544283276     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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