An adaptive load management mechanism for distributed simulation of multi-agent systems

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications, DS-RT

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 179-186

  Oguara, Ton ^a   Chen, Dan ^a   Theodoropoulos, Georgios ^a   Logan, Brian ^b   Lees, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; EFFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTIVE LOAD MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION; PDES-MAS FRAMEWORK; SHARED STATE VARIABLES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 31344431533     PISSN: 15506525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/distra.2005.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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