Design of the Kan distributed object system

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 755-797

  James, Jerry ^a   Singh, Ambuj ^b  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION;

CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING; DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS; KAN SYSTEM;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034219494     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9128(200007)12:8<755::AID-CPE508>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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