Ajents: towards an environment for parallel, distributed and mobile Java applications

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 667-685

  Izatt, Matthew ^a   Chan, Patrick ^a   Brecht, Tim ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AJENT SYSTEM; EXECUTION TIME; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING RESOURCES; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE; MIDDLEWARE; REMOTE METHOD INVOCATION TIMES;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 0034223267     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9128(200007)12:8<667::AID-CPE504>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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