Verification of the mobile agent network simulator - A tool for simulating multi-agent systems

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 651-682

  Kusek, Mario ^a   Jurasovic, Kresimir ^a   Jezic, Gordan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Mobile agent network; Multi agent system; Simulator; Verification

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MOBILE AGENTS; SIMULATORS; VERIFICATION;

DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; MOBILE AGENT NETWORK; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; NETWORK COMPLEXITY; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; REMOTE MAINTENANCE SHELLS; TASK COMPLEXITY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 57249084082     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194008003854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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