AgentTeamwork: Coordinating grid-computing jobs with mobile agents

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 181-198

  Fukuda, Munehiro ^a   Kashiwagi, Koichi ^b   Kobayashi, Shinya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Grid computing; Middleware design; Mobile agents; Process migration

Indexed keywords

GRID COMPUTING; MIDDLEWARE DESIGN; MOBILE AGENTS; PROCESS MIGRATION;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 33746432598     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-006-9653-6     Document Type: Article

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