Mobile agents: What about them? Did they deliver what they promised? Are they here to stay? (PANEL)

Proceedings - 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 294-295

  Samaras, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Mobile agents

Indexed keywords

DATABASE CONNECTIVITY INTERFACES; MOBILE AGENT TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE AGENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MOBILE COMPUTING; SERVERS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 2342501744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MDM.2004.1263075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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