Exploiting agents for modelling and simulation of coverage control protocols in large sensor networks

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1817-1832

  Cicirelli, Franco ^a   Furfaro, Angelo ^a   Nigro, Libero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actors; Distributed simulation; Evolutionary games; Java; Multi agent systems; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

ACTORS; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY GAMES;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 34548603940     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.02.015     Document Type: Article

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