Mobile multi-agent-based scheduling and coordination of maintenance networks

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 279-285

  Zhang, Feng ^a   Santos Jr , Eugene ^a   Luh, Peter B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Maintenance network; Mobile agent; Multi agent; Price based scheduling and coordination

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; SCHEDULING; SENSORS;

MAINTENANCE NETWORKS; MOBILE MULTI-AGENT-BASED SCHEDULING; PRICE-BASED SCHEDULING AND COORDINATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1642371658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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