Middle-agents organized in fault tolerant and fixed scalable structure

Computing and Informatics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 597-622

  Tichý, Pavel ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Multi agent systems; Scalability

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGENTS; SCALABILITY; SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 4043096948     PISSN: 13359150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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