Mobile agents and security

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 76-85

  Greenberg, Michael S ^a,c,d   Byington, Jennifer C ^a,c   Harper, David G ^b  

^a Theophany Holding ^*

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Agent Society

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); ONLINE SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA;

MULTIPLE COLLABORATIVE MOBILE AGENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032123682     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.689634     Document Type: Article

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