An open secure Mobile Agent framework for systems management

Journal of Network and Systems Management

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 323-339

  Bellavista, Paolo ^a,c,d   Corradi, Antonio ^a,c,d,e   Stefanelli, Cesare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c ACM   (Italy)

^d IEEE   (Italy)

^e AICA (Italian Association for Computing)   (Italy)

Author keywords

CORBA; Interoperability; Java; MASIF; Network and systems management; Security; Web based management

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTEROPERABILITY; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SECURITY OF DATA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MOBILE AGENTS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032683201     PISSN: 10647570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018775413054     Document Type: Article

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