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What is Distributed Agents

Chapter 21
Handbook of Research on Grid Technologies and Utility Computing: Concepts for Managing Large-Scale Applications
Software entities, designed to execute as independent threads and on distributed processors, capable of acting autonomously in order to achieve a pre-defined task.
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Distributed Image Processing on a Blackboard System
Gerald Schaefer (Loughborough University, UK) and Roger Tait (University of Cambridge, UK)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-184-1.ch021
Abstract
Efficient approaches to computationally intensive image processing tasks are currently highly sought after. In this chapter, the authors show how a blackboard paradigm, originally developed for collaborative problem solving, can be used as an efficient and effective vehicle for distributed computation. Through the design of dedicated intelligent agents, typical image processing algorithms can be applied in parallel on multiple loosely coupled machines leading to a significant overall speedup as is verified in a series of experiments.
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Distributed Medical Image and Volume Registration
Software entities designed to execute as independent threads and on distributed processors, capable of acting autonomously in order to achieve a predefined task.
Published in Chapter: Distributed Medical Image and Volume Registration; From: Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
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Distributed Medical Volume Registration
Software entities, designed to execute as independent threads and on distributed processors, capable of acting autonomously in order to achieve a pre-defined task.
Published in Chapter: Distributed Medical Volume Registration; From: Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health
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