Context-aware exception handling in mobile agent systems: The MoCA case

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 37-43

  Damasceno, Karla ^a   Cacho, Nelio ^b   Garcia, Alessandro ^b   Romanovsky, Alexander ^c   Lucena, Carlos ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aspect oriented programming; context awareness; exception handling; fault tolerance; middleware; mobile agents

Indexed keywords

ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; ASYNCHRONY; COLLABORATIVE APPLICATION; CONTEXT AWARE MIDDLEWARE; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; CONTEXT-AWARE; ERROR HANDLING; EXCEPTION HANDLING; EXCEPTION HANDLING MECHANISM; FAULT TOLERANCE MIDDLEWARE; IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; LESSONS LEARNED; MOBILE AGENT SYSTEM; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE COLLABORATION; PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 77953487272     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1138063.1138071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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