DimaX: A fault-tolerant multi-agent platform

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 13-19

  Faci, Nora ^a   Guessoum, Zahia ^a,b   Marin, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

fault tolerance; large scale multi agent systems; multi agent platform; replication

Indexed keywords

FAIL-STOP FAILURES; FAILURE RATE; FAULT-TOLERANT; MULTI-AGENT APPLICATIONS; MULTI-AGENT PLATFORMS; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; REPLICATION TECHNIQUES;

FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77952322161     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1138063.1138067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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