Automatic adaptation of mobile applications to different user devices using modular mobile agents

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1349-1391

  Kao, Tzu Han ^a   Yuan, Shyan Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Context aware; Mobile agents; Mobile applications; Mobile execution environment; Ubiquitous computing environment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; REMOTE CONTROL; SERVERS;

ADAPTATION; CONTEXT AWARE; MOBILE AGENTS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 27744486160     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.674     Document Type: Article

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