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Mobile Agents

Mobile Agents

Kamel Karoui
Copyright: © 2005 |Pages: 7
ISBN13: 9781591405610|ISBN10: 1591405610|EISBN13: 9781591407966
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-561-0.ch087
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Karoui, Kamel. "Mobile Agents." Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, edited by Margherita Pagani, IGI Global, 2005, pp. 608-614. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-561-0.ch087

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Karoui, K. (2005). Mobile Agents. In M. Pagani (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking (pp. 608-614). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-561-0.ch087

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Karoui, Kamel. "Mobile Agents." In Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, edited by Margherita Pagani, 608-614. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2005. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-561-0.ch087

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Abstract

The concept of mobile agent is not new; it comes from the idea of OS process migration firstly presented by Xerox in the 1980’s. The term mobile agent was introduced by White & Miller (1994), which supported the mobility as a new feature in their programming language called Telescript.

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