Generative mobile agent migration in heterogeneous environments

Scalable Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 89-99

  Overeinder, B J ^a   De Groot, D D A ^a   Wijngaards, N J E ^a   Brazier, F M T ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compositional design; Mobile agents; Process migration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

AGENT MIGRATIONS; AGENT PLATFORM; HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; MOBILE AGENT MIGRATIONS; NON-IDENTICAL; PROCESS MIGRATION;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 71749102485     PISSN: 18951767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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