Countermeasures for mobile agent security

Computer Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 1667-1676

  Jansen, W A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; SECURITY OF DATA;

MOBILE AGENT SECURITY;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 0034315517     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-3664(00)00253-X     Document Type: Article

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