MAWS: A platform-independent framework for mobile agents using Web services

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 428-443

  Artail, Hassan ^a   Kahale, Elie ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Interoperability; Java; Middleware; Mobile agents; SOAP; Web services; XML

Indexed keywords

MOBILE AGENTS; SOAP; WEB SERVICES;

INTEROPERABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 32444447599     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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