Towards self-organization in multi-agent systems and Grid computing

Multiagent and Grid Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 89-95

  Tianfield, Huaglory ^a   Unland, Rainer ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent based grid computing; Autonomic computing; Large scale open multi agent system; Multi agent system; Self organizing software application; Selforganization; Semantic grid; Service oriented architecture

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRID COMPUTING; INFORMATION SERVICES; SEMANTICS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT BASED; AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; OPEN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SEMANTIC GRID; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85005984487     PISSN: 15741702     EISSN: 18759076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/MGS-2005-1203     Document Type: Article

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