Analysis on the performance of mobile agents for query retrieval

Information Sciences

Volumn 172, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 281-307

  Selamat, Ali ^a   Selamat, Md Hafiz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Databases; Dispatching agents; Mobile agents; Performance study; Query retrieval; WWW

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOBILE COMPUTING; QUERY LANGUAGES; REMOTE CONTROL; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DISPATCHING AGENTS; EXTENDED HIERARCHICAL QUERY RETRIEVAL (EHQR) APPROACH; MOBILE AGENTS; PERFORMANCE STUDY; QUERY RETRIEVAL;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 18544390364     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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