Application of mobile agents in mobile data access systems: A prototype

Journal of Database Management

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1-24

  Jiao, Yu ^a   Hurson, Ali R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogenous data sources; Information retrieval; Mobile agent; Mobile device; Mutlidatabase; Wireless communication

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BANDWIDTH; CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HETEROGENOUS DATA SOURCES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR); MOBILE AGENTS; MOBILE DEVICES (MD); MULTIDATABASE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 4444352732     PISSN: 10638016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jdm.2004100101     Document Type: Article

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