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Understanding Code Mobility (1998)
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| Venue: | IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |
| Citations: | 543 - 34 self |
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@ARTICLE{Fuggetta98understandingcode,
author = {Alfonso Fuggetta and Gian Pietro Picco and Giovanni Vigna},
title = {Understanding Code Mobility},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
year = {1998},
volume = {24},
pages = {342--361}
}
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Abstract
The technologies, architectures, and methodologies traditionally used to develop distributed applications exhibit a variety of limitations and drawbacks when applied to large scale distributed settings (e.g., the Internet). In particular, they fail in providing the desired degree of configurability, scalability, and customizability. To address these issues, researchers are investigating a variety of innovative approaches. The most promising and intriguing ones are those based on the ability of moving code across the nodes of a network, exploiting the notion of mobile code. As an emerging research field, code mobility is generating a growing body of scientific literature and industrial developments. Nevertheless, the field is still characterized by the lack of a sound and comprehensive body of concepts and terms. As a consequence, it is rather difficult to understand, assess, and compare the existing approaches. In turn, this limits our ability to fully exploit them in practice, and to further promote the research work on mobile code. Indeed, a significant symptom of this situation is the lack of a commonly accepted and sound definition of the term "mobile code" itself.
