A multi-agent coordination model for the variation of underlying network topology

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 372-382

  Jiang, Yi Chuan ^a   Jiang, J C ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China United Telecommunications   (China)

Author keywords

Coordination; Multi agent; Network topology; Resource negotiation; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TOPOLOGY;

MULTI-AGENT COORDINATION MODEL; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; RESOURCE NEGOTIATION; TASK ALLOCATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 22144468775     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2005.04.015     Document Type: Article

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