Agents: a distributed client-server system for leaf cell generation

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 42-61

  De Moreira, Dilvan Abreu ^a   Walczowski, Les T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Client; Genetic algorithms; Server model; Software agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746970027     PISSN: 10844309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/250243.250248     Document Type: Article

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