A survey of mobile agent-based fault-tolerant technology

Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 446-450

  Qu, Wenyu ^a   Shen, Hong ^a   Defago, Xavier ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Mobile agents; Survey

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SURVEYS;

MOBILE AGENT-BASED FAULT-TOLERANT TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE AGENTS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745117612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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