Mobile object systems : towards the programmable Internet : second international workshop, MOS '96, Linz, Austria, July 8-9, 1996 : selected presentations and invited papers /

If the Internet is seen as a single, vast, programmable machine, what is the proper programming paradigm to facilitate development of the new applications it must offer? This state-of-the-art survey deals with this question. The situation we face is similar to that in the 1960s, when a new hardware/...

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Corporate Authors: MOS '96 Linz, Austria, SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Vitek, Jan, Tschudin, Christian
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1997]
Series:Lecture notes in computer science ; 1222.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Mobile Computation / Luca Cardelli
  • Objectworld / Denis Tsichritzis
  • Commentary on "Objectworld" / Denis Tsichritzis
  • Mobile Agents: Are They a Good Idea? / David Chess, Colin Harrison and Aaron Kershenbaum
  • Update / David Chess, Colin Harrison and Aaron Kershenbaum
  • A Note on Distributed Computing / Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant and Ann Wollrath ... [et al.]
  • Afterword / Jim Waldo, Ann Wollrath and Sam Kendall
  • Instruction-Based Communications / Christian Tschudin
  • Analyzing Mobile Code Languages / Gianpaolo Cugola, Carlo Ghezzi and Gian Pietro Picco [et al.]
  • Sumatra: A Language for Resource-Aware Mobile Programs / Anurag Acharya, M. Ranganathan and Joel Saltz
  • Migratory Applications / Krishna Bharat and Luca Cardelli
  • The Messenger Environment [mu phi]
  • A Condensed Description / Christian Tschudin
  • Mobility and Persistence / Miguel Mira da Silva
  • Security and Communication in Mobile Object Systems / Jan Vitek, Manuel Serrano and Dimitri Thanos.