A step towards a new generation of group communication systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2672, Issue , 2003, Pages 414-432

  Mena, Sergio ^a   Schiper, André ^a   Wojciechowski, Pawel ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

COMMON FEATURES; EXISTING ARCHITECTURES; GROUP COMMUNICATION MIDDLEWARES; GROUP COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GROUP COMMUNICATIONS;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 35248884287     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44892-6_21     Document Type: Article

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