Mobile-C: A mobile agent platform for mobile C/C++ agents

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1711-1733

  Chen, Bo ^a   Cheng, Harry H ^a   Palen, Joe ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent technology; C C++ interpreter; Ch; FIPA; Mobile agents; Mobility

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

AGENT TECHNOLOGY; C/C++ INTERPRETERS; INTELLIGENT PHYSICAL AGENTS (FIPA); MOBILE AGENTS; MOBILITY;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 33845249961     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.742     Document Type: Article

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