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Mobile Agent Rendezvous: A Survey

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Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2006)

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Recent results on the problem of mobile agent rendezvous on distributed networks are surveyed with an emphasis on outlining the various approaches taken by researchers in the theoretical computer science community.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Evangelos Kranakis

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 06459, USA

    Danny Krizanc

  3. Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico D.F., 04510

    Sergio Rajsbaum

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  1. SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada

    Paola Flocchini

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, L69 3BX, Liverpool, UK

    Leszek Gąsieniec

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Kranakis, E., Krizanc, D., Rajsbaum, S. (2006). Mobile Agent Rendezvous: A Survey. In: Flocchini, P., Gąsieniec, L. (eds) Structural Information and Communication Complexity. SIROCCO 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4056. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780823_1

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