Protection and interoperability for mobile agents: a secure and open programming environment

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E83-B, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 961-971

  Avista, Paolo Bell ^a   Corradl, Antonio ^b   Stefanelli, Cesare ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corda, network and systems management; Interoperability; Mobile agents; Security

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; INTERNET; INTEROPERABILITY; SECURITY OF DATA;

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT; SECURE AND OPEN MOBILE AGENT;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034187128     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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