Cluster partition-based communication of multiagents: The model and analyses

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 807-814

  Jiang, Jiuchuan ^a,b   Xia, Zhengyou ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Blackboard communication; Cluster; Communication; Hub agent; Message passing; Multiagents; Partition

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; MESSAGE PASSING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; BLACKBOARD COMMUNICATION; CLUSTER; COMMUNICATION COST; COMMUNICATION FREQUENCY; COMMUNICATION MODELS; COMMUNICATION PROCESS; COMMUNICATION RESOURCES; COMMUNICATION TIME; HUB-AGENT; MULTI AGENT; REAL COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79960839122     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2011.05.020     Document Type: Article

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