Bee-gent: Bonding and Encapsulation Enhancement agent framework for development of distributed systems

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 42-56

  Kawamura, Takahiro ^a,b,c   Tahara, Yasuyuki ^a,c,d,e,f   Hasegawa, Tetsuo ^a   Ohsuga, Akihiko ^a   Honiden, Shinichi ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IPSJ   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONDING ENHANCEMENT AGENTS; ENCAPSULATION ENHANCEMENT AGENTS; MOBILE AGENTS;

INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034323404     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1520-684X(20001130)31:13<42::AID-SCJ5>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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