Mobile object systems [electronic resource] : towards the programmable Internet : second international workshop, MOS '96, Linz, Austria, July 8-9, 1996 : selected presentations and invited papers / Jan Vitek, Christian Tschudin, eds.

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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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Corporate Author: MOS '96 Linz, Austria
Other Authors: Vitek, Jan (Computer scientist), Tschudin, Christian
Other title:MOS '96.
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©1997.
Series:Lecture notes in computer science ; 1222.
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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 [and others]
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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.