Understanding code mobility

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 342-361

  Fuggetta, Alfonso ^a   Picco, Gian Pietro ^a   Vigna, Giovanni ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Design paradigm; Distributed application; Mobile code, mobile agent

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544373958     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.685258     Document Type: Article

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