A quantitative and qualitative comparison of distributed information processing using mobile agents realised in RMI and Voyager

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 583-605

  Cogan, Patrick ^a   Gomoluch, Jacek ^a   Schroeder, Michael ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA PROCESSING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED OBJECT COMPUTING; MOBILE AGENTS; NETWORK CENTRIC PROGRAMMING; VOYAGER;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 8644270562     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194001000694     Document Type: Article

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