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Mobile Object Systems Towards the Programmable Internet (MOS 1996)

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In the last three years we have been working with persistence and distribution, in particular migration of higher-level objects between autonomous persistent programs. In this chapter we introduce persistence and then present a few examples of opportunities and many more challenges that exist in the combination of persistence and mobility.

This chapter is an extended version of a joint paper with Malcolm Atkinson, “Combining Mobile Agents with Persistent Systems: Opportunities and Challenges” [MdSA96a] that was originally published in the Proceedings of the Second ECOOP Workshop on Mobile Object Systems [BTV96].

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Mira da Silva, M. (1997). Mobility and persistence. In: Vitek, J., Tschudin, C. (eds) Mobile Object Systems Towards the Programmable Internet. MOS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1222. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62852-5_13

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