Coordinating multiagent applications on the WWW: A reference architecture

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 362-375

  Ciancarini, Paolo ^a   Tolksdorf, Robert ^a   Vitali, Fabio ^a   Rossi, Davide ^a   Knoche, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coordination; Distributed programming systems; Internet; Java, linda; Open distributed systems; Web applications

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747492022     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.685259     Document Type: Article

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