On coordination and its significance to distributed and multi-agent systems

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 359-370

  Ossowski, Sascha ^a   Menezes, Ronaldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination technologies; Distributed computing; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PLANNING;

COORDINATION TECHNOLOGIES; SPORTS TALKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645318429     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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