PIM: A novel architecture for coordinating behavior of distributed systems

AI Magazine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 9-24

  Ford, Kenneth M ^a,b   Allen, James ^c   Suri, Niranjan ^a   Hayes, Partrick J ^a,c,d,e,f   Morris, Robert A ^g  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION   (United States)

^b Institute for Human and Machine Cognition ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK SECURITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CENTRALIZED APPROACHES; CENTRALIZED ARCHITECTURE; CENTRALIZED CONTROL; COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; EFFECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURES; INTER-AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; LOOSELY COUPLED SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951889928     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v31i2.2261     Document Type: Article

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