Agent-based virtual organisations for the Grid

Multiagent and Grid Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 237-249

  Patel, Jigar ^a   Luke Teacy, W T ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a   Luck, Michael ^a   Chalmers, Stuart ^b   Oren, Nir ^b   Norman, Timothy J ^b   Preece, Alun ^b   Gray, Peter M D ^b   Shercliff, Gareth ^c   Stockreisser, Patrick J ^c   Shao, Jianhua ^c   Alex Gray, W ^c   Fiddian, Nick J ^c   Thompson, Simon ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BT Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agents; Grid; Policing; Quality of service monitoring; Trust; Virtual organisations

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AGENT BASED; COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT; GRID; INFORMATION SOURCES; MALICIOUS ENTITY; POLICING; TRUST; VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 85006054299     PISSN: 15741702     EISSN: 18759076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/MGS-2005-1402     Document Type: Article

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