Ordered asynchronous processes in multi-agent systems

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 204, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 70-82

  Cornforth, David ^a   Green, David G ^b   Newth, David ^a,c  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asynchronous; Cellular automata; Models; Multi agent

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOGIC DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ASYNCHRONOUS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; MULTI-AGENT; TEMPORAL COUPLING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 18844410242     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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