Adaptive distributed resource allocation and diagnostics using cooperative information-sharing strategies

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 826-833

  Dutta, Partha S ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a   Moreau, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information sharing; Resource allocation; State diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

DYNAMIC STATE CHANGES; INFORMATION SHARING; NETWORK FAILURES; STATE DIAGNOSIS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34247208114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1160633.1160783     Document Type: Conference Paper

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