Transportable information agents

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 215-238

  Rus, Daniela ^a   Gray, Robert ^a   Kotz, David ^a  

^a Dartmouth Department of Computer Science_Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed information access; Mobile agents

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

TRANSPORTABLE AGENT SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031275340     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008622002816     Document Type: Article

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