Towards an automatic distribution system - Issues and challenges

Proceedings of the IASTED International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 399-404

  Oudshoorn, Michael J ^a   Fuad, Mohammad M ^a   Deb, Debzani ^a  

^a Montana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Automated distribution; Distributed Shared Memory; GRID computing; Middleware

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; MIDDLEWARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATED DISTRIBUTION; DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY; GRID COMPUTING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 27944444035     PISSN: 10272666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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