Full mobile agent interoperability in an IEEE-FIPA context

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1927-1940

  Cucurull, J ^a   Marti R ^a   Navarro Arribas, G ^b   Robles, S ^a   Borrell, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agent interface; Agent state; Mobile agent interoperability; Performance; Programming language independence

Indexed keywords

AGENT DATA; DESIGN MODELS; INDEPENDENT AGENTS; INTERFACE AGENT; MOBILE AGENT SYSTEM; MULTIPLE CODES; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE INDEPENDENCE;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTEROPERABILITY; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SILICATE MINERALS;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 71749111683     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.06.038     Document Type: Article

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