The SATIN component system - A metamodel for engineering adaptable mobile systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 910-927

  Zachariadis, Stefanos ^a   Mascolo, Cecilia ^a   Emmerich, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Components; Containers; Distributed objects; Middleware; Mobile code; Mobile systems; Pervasive computing

Indexed keywords

MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

COMPONENT-BASED MOBILE COMPUTING MIDDLEWARE; LOGICAL MOBILITY PRIMITIVES; SYSTEM ADAPTATION TARGETING INTEGRATED NETWORKS (SATIN);

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 33947311366     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2006.115     Document Type: Article

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