Scalability and robustness of a network resource allocation system using market-based agents

NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 69-96

  Haque, Nadim ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a   Moreau, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent; Communications network; Market; Resource allocation; Robustness; Scalability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845352048     PISSN: 13859587     EISSN: 15737071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11066-006-9005-z     Document Type: Article

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