The scheduling and organization of periodic associative computation: Efficient networks

Review of Economic Design

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 93-127

  Van Zandt, Timothy ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Organizations; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649083353     PISSN: 14344742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100580050007     Document Type: Article

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