Promoting the development of secure mobile agent applications

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 959-971

  Garrigues, Carles ^a   Robles, Sergi ^b   Borrell, Joan ^b   Navarro Arribas, Guillermo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aided application development; Mobile agents; Software architecture; Specification language

Indexed keywords

AIDED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; MOBILE AGENT SECURITY; MOBILE AGENT TECHNOLOGY; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; SECURE MOBILE AGENT; SECURITY SOLUTIONS; SPEED-UPS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRYPTOGRAPHY; LINGUISTICS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NETWORK SECURITY; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 77953326581     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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