NASA's Mobile Agents Architecture: A multi-agent workflow and communication system for planetary exploration

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 603, 2005, Pages 471-479

  Sierhuis, Maarten ^a,b   Clancey, William J ^b   Alena, Richard L ^b   Berrios, Dan ^b,c   Shum, Simon Buckingham ^d   Dowding, John ^b,c   Graham, Jeff ^e   Van Hoof, Ron ^b,c   Kaskiris, Charis ^f   Rupert, Shannon ^g   Tyree, Kim S ^e  

^a Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UARC   (United States)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Lunar Economic Development Authority Corporation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAPTOP COMPUTERS; PLANETS; ROBOTICS; SPACE RESEARCH; WIDE AREA NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BRAHMS MULTIAGENT LANGUAGE; DISTRIBUTED AGENT-BASED ARCHITECTURE; MOBILE AGENTS ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 28744438576     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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