A timed mobile agent planning approach for distributed information retrieval in dynamic network environments

Information Sciences

Volumn 176, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 3347-3378

  Baek, Jin Wook ^a   Yeom, Heon Y ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Distributed information retrieval; Internet and mobile computing; Mobile agents; P2P computing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MOBILE COMPUTING; QUALITY CONTROL; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET AND MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE AGENTS; P2P COMPUTING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33747812111     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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