Title :
A virtual machine for a functional mobile agent architecture supporting distributed medical information
Author :
Meunier, Jeffrey A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Connecticut Univ., Storrs, CT, USA
Abstract :
A virtual machine supporting mobile software agents using the functional programming paradigm is presented. This virtual machine provides for the application developer a rich and robust platform on which to develop distributed mobile agent applications, specifically when targeting distributed medical information and distributed image processing. The functional paradigm provides the virtual machine and applications developed for it with a conciseness and expressiveness not normally available with other paradigms, and directly supports distribution by exploiting the natural parallelism inherent an functional programs
Keywords :
distributed processing; functional programming; medical image processing; software agents; virtual machines; distributed medical information; functional programming; medical computing; medical image processing; mobile agent; virtual machine; Application software; Biomedical imaging; Computer architecture; Computer science; Distributed computing; Functional programming; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; Software agents; Virtual machining;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 12th IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Stamford, CT
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0234-2
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.1999.781267
