Trends in mobile agent applications

Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 323-351

  Eid, Mohamad ^a,b   Artail, Hassan ^a   Kayssi, Ayman ^a   Chehab, Ali ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b Business and Computer University College Beirut   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SEARCHING; INTRUSION DETECTION; MOBILE AGENTS; NETWORK MONITORING;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MONITORING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 27744474251     PISSN: 1443458X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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