Actors, roles and coordinators - A coordination model for open distributed and embedded systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4038 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 247-265

  Ren, Shangping ^a   Yu, Yue ^a   Chen, Nianen ^a   Marth, Kevin ^a   Poirot, Pierre Etienne ^a   Shen, Limin ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAPPING; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

COMPUTATION MODEL; COORDINATION CONSTRAINTS; OPEN DISTRIBUTED AND EMBEDDED (ODE) SYSTEM;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746268966     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11767954_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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