Distributed agent environment: Application and performance

Information Sciences

Volumn 154, Issue 1-2 SPEC., 2003, Pages 5-21

  Yau, Stanley M T ^a   Leong, Hong Va ^a   Si, Antonio ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent; Mobile web environment; Performance study

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SERVERS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WEB BROWSERS;

MOBILE WEB ENVIRONMENT;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038006689     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(03)00003-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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