Fine-Grained Mobility in the Emerald System

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 109-133

  Jul, Eric ^a   Levy, Henry ^b   Hutchinson, Norman ^c   Black, Andrew ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed languages; object oriented languages; object oriented systems; process mobility

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - DISTRIBUTED;

DISTRIBUTED LANGUAGES; EMERALD; OBJECT-ORIENTED LANGUAGES; PROCESS MOBILITY;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0023960862     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/35037.42182     Document Type: Article

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