Congestion control in ant like moving agent systems

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 268, Issue , 2008, Pages 33-43

  Scheidler, Alexander ^a   Merkle, Daniel ^b   Middendorf, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILLING STATIONS;

AGENT SYSTEMS; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; SENSORY INFORMATION;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 47849105524     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09655-1_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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