Engineering mobile-agent applications via context-dependent coordination

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2001-May, Issue , 2001, Pages 371-380

  Cabri, Giacomo ^a   Leonardi, Letizia ^a   Zambonelli, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT BASED; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; COORDINATING AGENTS; COORDINATION INFRASTRUCTURE; COORDINATION PROBLEMS; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS; INTERNET APPLICATION; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; MOBILE AGENT APPLICATION; CONTEXT DEPENDENT COORDINATION; MOBILE AGENTS;

MOBILE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035000619     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2001.919110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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