Which paradigm should I use? An analytical comparison of the client-server, remote evaluation and mobile agent paradigms

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 71-94

  Puliafito, Antonio ^a   Riccobene, Salvatore ^b   Scarpa, Marco ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Matematica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Client server; Mobile agents; Performance analysis; Petri nets; Remote evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA HANDLING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PETRI NETS;

MOBILE AGENTS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; REMOTE EVALUATION;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035003114     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.548     Document Type: Article

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