MAGDA: A Mobile Agent based Grid Architecture

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 395-412

  Aversa, Rocco ^a   Di Martino, Beniamino ^a   Mazzocca, Nicola ^b   Venticinque, Salvatore ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Grid; Heterogeneous and distributed systems; Mobile agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749326971     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-006-9049-1     Document Type: Article

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